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A bit, the smallest unit of information, the fundamental particle of information theory, is a choice, yes or no, on or off.
The technology is there to capture huge amounts of energy, say industry experts, but there are some challenges to overcome, including the lack of water and the presence of dust.
Your assessment of how long something took has a lot to do with how much energy your brain has to burn during the event.
Estimates are that a third of the prison population has mental illness.
Keeping a secret is quite bad for you because it causes a lot of stress.
At least that's the claim being made by a new study: The likelihood of a red dwarf star housing a habitable super-Earth increases significantly when cloud behavior is considered.
The external packaging is far less important to Internet pioneers than what is inside.
Movie trailers are a perfect example of content that goes viral.
Young people are sick and tired of what they've been experiencing and they don't understand why it's continuing.
You try and stare a baby out on the metro and you’re on a loser pal.
Would you kill a baby and save millions of lives further on down the line in history?
One of the benefits of being a psychopath is you are not depressed and you are not anxious.
The more people are attending to threat-related stimuli, the more anxious they get.
In traditional Sufism, a seeker would find a teacher and study under him for a number of years in a particular order, or turuq. During that time the seeker would […]
The Pocket Spacecraft project aims to open lunar exploration to the public by offering thin-film, sensor-packed "scouts" for sale that will eventually travel to the moon and send back data to their owners.
Bonobos have sex with everybody basically all the time. Well, not everybody.
I feel this tendency to come up with an evolutionary explanation for basically everything under the sun is not needed.
The ultimatum game is the ultimate test of fairness, and chimpanzees passed the test by going for the fair options.
Introducing Thomas Cathcart's new Big Think blog series, Why Philosophize?