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a visualization showing the view from inside the inner event horizon of a Kerr black hole
The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don't physically exist. Is he right?
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Some neuroscientists question whether the body can “keep score” of anything in a meaningful way.
A close up of worms in a liquid.
These nematodes complicate how we understand evolutionary lineages.
A group of people running on a track.
A company can only be as agile as its least flexible team — here’s how to make an effective framework for decision-making.
A woman sitting on a chair in a room.
6mins
MakeLoveNotPorn founder Cindy Gallop says women need to stop giving a damn what people think.
Unlikely Collaborators
pulsar orbiting a low-mass star in an X-ray binary system
Nearly half of all stars are born in binary systems, with the most massive ones dying the fastest. It's not pretty for the "second" star.
SpaceX rocket
Freethink's weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring Starship's second test flight, a new "dark mysteries" telescope, and more.
A black and white image of a man holding a camera and various Chinese and Japanese textbooks, showcasing his dedication to learning these languages.
Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.
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There is currently no easy way to treat high Lp(a). A single shot could change that.
An image of a man and a woman with the words carrer R
You can learn an awful lot about people, culture, and politics by studying R.
An image of an ancient black hole
The Big Bang theory is not threatened, but astrophysicists have some explaining to do.
A man's face is shown through a hole in a black background.
1hr 2mins
You know ChatGPT, but how much do you know about the company that made it? Journalist Karen Hao joins us to talk OpenAI’s latest implosion.
An integrated woman's feet resting on a chair.
There are steps we can take to create a new paradigm that will help shift society's attitude towards women in the workplace.
A little boy finding lockdown compensation by reaching out to an old lady through a window.
Lockdowns moved the burden of COVID from the at-risk elderly to the less-at-risk young. Does this sacrifice merit compensation?
Two men in suits standing next to each other, discussing fraud.
8mins
Fraud is a $5 trillion “industry.” But not all its perpetrators look alike. Kelly Richmond Pope, a professor of accounting, breaks down who commits fraud — and why.
A black and white image of a ball in antigravity motion.
In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can't there be an "antigravity" force?
An old black and white photo of a man practicing phrenology on a bust.
The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
A black and white photo of a building that has been destroyed in New Jersey.
"I grew up in New Jersey in the 1970s and that experience gave me everything I needed to become a skeptic."
An visualization of dark matter across the universe
The paper does not prove the existence of dark matter, but it mostly eliminates a rival theory called Modified Newtonian Dynamics.