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Daydreaming is good. But if you're doing too much of it, you might have a totally different brain.
Although the scope of the strike isn’t clear yet, the strike organizers claimed that they anticipated inmate demonstrations in as many as 17 states.
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Colonel Chris Hadfield talks to us about the formalities that astronauts have to use, and how it can help us here on earth.
The buildings of the future will be fluid, impermanent, and in constant transformation. But will human nature catch up?
Infographics present data about how much we commute, how much time and money we spend in traffic, and what we think should be done about it.
General The Big Think, Inc., ("Big Think") strives to ensure that its services are accessible to people with disabilities. Big Think has invested a significant amount of resources to help […]
The most massive star in the known Universe is 260 times as heavy as our Sun. But viewing the early Universe will shatter that record. Place enough mass together in one […]
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The beautiful courtship rituals of the Club-winged Manakin leave both the male and the female worse off physically, says evolutionary ornithologist Richard O. Prum.
A new study suggests that switching to a Mediterranean diet in the later years can prolong your lifespan.
It now moves to a full hearing in front of the arbitrator.
Senator John Sidney McCain III, who died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018 at the age of 81, is lying in state in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol.
50 years ago the city of Chicago erupted in a legendary police riot.
Videos for “Baby Shark,” a diabolical earworm, have been watched 3.3 billion times in a viral children-song craze that spans the globe. But why?
Our Universe may not be all there is, was, or ever will be, after all. There’s been a lot of speculative ideas put forth about the Multiverse, and I dare say […]
The less that parents "walk the walk" about religious beliefs, the more likely their children are to walk away.
Think you make moral judgments objectively? Think again.
We don’t need the many-worlds of quantum mechanics to have more Universes than we know what to do with. “The Universe is all there is, or was, or will be.” That […]
By the late 18th century, up to 70% of the soldiers manning the ships of the Dutch East India Company came from outside the Netherlands
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Economic concerns can take much of the sentimentality and romance out of marriage, says Judith Bruce, the senior associate and policy analyst at the Population Council.
Swirling in the Pacific Ocean is a loose patch of garbage that measures 1 million square miles—about three times the size of France. Now, one organization is beginning to clean it up.