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What gets a wolf or a pigeon up in the morning? No offense to wolves or to pigeons, but it's probably not the desire to make the world a better […]
Gravity gets weaker as the distance squared. But gravitational waves only get weaker as the distance. Why? One of the things we often just accept about the world is that […]
Have sexual interludes obscured the path to love?
Just because the keto diet is an effective weight-loss tool doesn't mean everyone should try it.
After docking at the International Space Station, the unmanned capsule executed a fiery and carefully choreographed return to Earth.
The answer can be found several thousand years ago, in the Roman city of Cyrene.
Faraday’s law of induction was set forth in 1834, and was the experiment that led Einstein to discover relativity. When we think about Einstein and the theory of relativity, all […]
More vaccine-autism facts for the fact-averse.
It would be nice if we lived in a world where we could just do a good job and bosses would pay everyone what they’re really worth, and close the […]
The Oedipal complex, repressed memories, penis envy? Sigmund Freud's ideas are far-reaching, but few have withstood the onslaught of empirical evidence.
Forget everything you think you know about meditation.
Though written for his students, the lessons can be applied by any essay writer.
Before we formed stars, atoms, elements, or even got rid of our antimatter, the Big Bang made neutrinos. And we found them. The idea of the Big Bang has captivated the […]
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Recently, "the London patient" became the second person in history to be cured of HIV. Now, "the Düsseldorf patient" appears to be the third, with the possibility of more on the way.
The quick-acting drug could usher in a new era of treatment for depression.
Food deserts are a problem. One solution might already exist.
What happened 4.56 billion years ago is the most important part of the cosmic story ever to happen to us. If you were to look at our Universe at the time […]
Most captive elephants are kept under immensely cruel conditions. In Myanmar, they're treated differently.
March is Women's History Month, and Big Think+ is commemorating it with a collection of videos highlighting both women’s history, and the complicated choices facing women who are making history […]