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 Business, on every level, is becoming more multi-cultural. Whether it’s embracing diversity internally, expanding to multiple sites around the world, or entering distant markets such as China, never has it […]
The transition across a quantum barrier is known as quantum tunneling, and the amount of time it takes for such a transition to occur had never been measured before. For […]
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Be a man? Why this once trusty advice now fails men.
Researchers find that toddlers verbalize and interact more with their parents when reading sessions feature print books, not tablets.
One group of women still seem to benefit from the popular diet.
Two maps show two very different takes on the huge discrepancies in U.S. life expectancy
While there's plenty to be worried about, it's important to remember that we're making progress, too.
Is it saying too much to say something doesn't exist when you have no evidence either way?
 Building Big Think from little more than an idea to 30 million monthly visitors, co-founder Victoria Rachel Montgomery-Brown knows something about being an entrepreneur. Her idea, together with co-founder Peter […]
The Canadian professor's old-school message is why many started listening to him.
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A climate catastrophe 2 billion years ago almost ended life on Earth. Here’s the biggest lesson of all. Although it was more than 4½ billion years ago that planet Earth formed, […]
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Tax megacorps like Amazon to fund universal basic income, says 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang.
The navigation tool has placed a school in the sea, among other things.
A new computer model solves a pair of Jovian riddles.
Artists and fans are the big losers as bot-powered scalpers make a killing.
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The 21st century is experiencing an Asianization of politics, business, and culture.
If you’re careful enough, you can learn more about the Solar System than you ever imagined. This year, on March 20th, the full Moon will illuminate the night sky. With […]
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Can sensitive coral reefs survive another human generation?