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For a startup, growth is a straightforward matter of scaling up: adding employees, setting up distribution channels, and so on. But, says David Butler in his Big Think+ video “Design […]
Well-lit cities and towns are essential to public safety. That doesn’t have to ruin the night sky. For most of us here on planet Earth, navigating the world at night is […]
A plan to forgive almost a trillion dollars in debt would solve the student loan debt crisis, but can it work?
In most states, LGBTQ Americans have no legal protections against discrimination in the workplace.
No, depression is not just a type of "affluenza" — poor people in conflict zones are more likely candidates
Two new studies say yes. Unfortunately, each claims a different time.
What does this mean for economies?
Now that we’ve seen our first one, we want more, and we want them better. Here’s how to get there. To resolve any astronomical object, you must achieve resolutions superior to […]
Here are 7 often-overlooked World Heritage Sites, each with its own history.
A new method promises to capture an elusive dark world particle.
Having these financial life skills can help you navigate challenging economic environments.
Experts argue the jaws of an ancient European ape reveal a key human ancestor.
Tragedy in art, from Ancient Greece to Breaking Bad, resists all our efforts to tie reality up in a neat bow, to draw some edifying lesson from it. Instead it confronts us with our own limitations, leaving us scrabbling in the rubble of certainty to figure out what's next.
It’s the technique, from the Event Horizon Telescope, that brought us a black hole’s image. Here’s how it works. The Event Horizon Telescope has accomplished what no other telescope or telescope […]
Taking care of our minds is an often neglected aspect of aging. What are we going to do about it?
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