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Simple changes to your holiday decorations, gifting or travel can make the festive season more sustainable.
Spoiler: Microbiomes in space!
To create the podcast series "Dolly Parton's America", Jad Abumrad and his producer Shima Oliaee took nine trips into the "Dollyverse"—that complex American multiverse of music and culture that surrounds country singer Dolly Parton. In this episode Jad and host Jason Gots talk about some of the astonishing discoveries he made along the way.
A fascinating mathematical structure exists that goes well beyond our common experience. Could it revolutionize physics? Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is that every particle within it — at […]
Big Think has launched a line of apparel and goods that celebrate the life and work of four geniuses.
From "if-by-whiskey" to the McNamara fallacy, being able to spot logical missteps is an invaluable skill.
A new study suggests that a device's night mode may damage sleep hygiene even more.
An online tool listed the home of the Black Panther as a trading partner of the United States.
Here's why scary stories were once an integral part of Christmas Eve festivities.
There’s real, straightforward science behind the destruction of an Alderaan-sized planet. In all of science fiction, perhaps the most iconic moment of destruction occurs in 1977’s Star Wars: A New […]
With the realization that overdue charges disproportionately affect access for low-income readers, libraries are reconsidering the value of fees.
Big Think has launched a line of apparel and goods that celebrate the life and work of four geniuses.
All this from a wad of gum?
For the third time in U.S. history, the House of Representatives voted to impeach a sitting U.S. president.
It’s one of the two best meteor showers of the year. Don’t let the full Moon stop you. Every year, as the Earth intercepts the debris streams of comets and asteroids […]
Way back in 1965, the soon-to-be founder of Intel, Gordon Moore, published a paper predicting that the number of transistors that could fit on a computer chip would double every […]
Long-lasting capsule can remain in the stomach and release contraceptive drugs over several weeks.
Iceland has closed almost 88% of its gender gap and increased its lead over second-ranked Norway.
Recent research estimates that the growth of emissions slowed down to 0.6 percent in 2019. However, this still means that humans released more CO2 into the atmosphere in 2019 than in any other year.
A new study analyzed more than 1.5 billion opioid prescriptions over eight years.