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Are tiny homes just a trend for wealthy minimalists or an economic necessity for the growing poor?
An unexpectedly revealing find in Mongolia solves a longstanding riddle.
As more data comes in, the puzzle gets deeper and deeper. Whenever you set out to solve a problem, there are a series of steps you have to take in order […]
Can Impossible Foods beat other brands — like Beyond Meat and Tyson — in the war to dominate the alternative meat industry?
The move comes one day before more than 1,500 Amazon employees are set to walk off the job as part of the global climate strikes.
Suicide rates in Puerto Rico have risen by a third since Hurricane Maria.
With little progress on other avenues to preventing mass shootings, one firm has employed architecture to save students.
The line-in-the-sand was drawn in sharpie, and the time to declare ‘no more’ is now. When you have a question about the physical world, there are a lot of different approaches […]
Duke University psychiatrist Harold Koenig describes how. The post Faith Benefits Health appeared first on ORBITER.
Objects coming into our solar system have an origins story to tell.
An argument for STEAM, not STEM.
We have a new range of skills coming to Big Think+ this week, including communication, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence.
A new research article states that the obesity epidemic is affecting more than just waistlines.
Forget Copenhagen, Many-Worlds, Pilot Waves and all the others. What you’re left with is reality. When it comes to understanding the Universe, scientists have traditionally taken two approaches in tandem with […]
After China stopped accepting recylables, California was put in a tough place.
Some critics say the move is designed to shield those who profited from the dangerous drug.
* Well, hold on a minute. Those claims are debatable.
The choice of flavor may be up to you, but the number of scoops will depend on your friends.