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Your client's expectations about technology tend to come from his or her experience as a consumer.
In this video, Dr. Ainissa Ramirez explains some of the science behind ice cream.
Scientists at MIT are hoping to map the 86 billion connected neurons in your brain, and have developed a browser game for you to help them accomplish this.
Expedition 36 Crew Member, astronaut Karen Nyberg, demonstrates how she washes her hair in space onboard the International Space Station.
In a video produced with the ACLU, director Oliver Stone explores the legacy of unchecked government surveillance programs, from Nixon to the current NSA spying program.
It is so hot in Death Valley that you can fry an egg outside using nothing but the sun and a skillet.
Neon and fluorescent lighting. Radio. Electric motors. Robotics. These are just a few of the inventions of the Serbian engineer Nikola Tesla that he never got credit for during his lifetime.
Should steroid use be considered, as the philosopher Alva Noe has argued, a natural extension of our technological lives?
This is hardly a breakthrough delivery system. What it represents, however, is a clever application of a technology that has high novelty value.
Wendy Luhabe explains how her mother, who refused to be a victim of circumstance, is the person who gave her a passion for mentorship.
The Australian Paul Mathis has apparently spent nearly $40,000 developing a new symbol and advocating its inclusion as the 27th letter of the alphabet.
Ron Miller has painted the planets as if they were the same distance from Earth as the Moon, in order to demonstrate their size.
In honor of Bastille Day, we are looking at five French ideas and how they have influenced the world.
Perhaps the most powerful contribution of cognitive psychology to human understanding has been its careful mapping out of the many ways in which we self-deceive. Our minds are expert confabulators, […]
"You can’t live or die every day thinking about redemption," a self-reflective Eliot Spitzer told Big Think in 2010.
For many career seekers, “follow your passion” can be a terrifying piece of advice, mainly because the word passion conjures up images of intense, frenzied activity better suited to an […]
Talent isn’t everything. In fact, some of the most robust findings to come out of developmental psychology over the past decades have identified self-control – the ability to harness, train, […]
Theo Caldwell recently appeared on FOX, telling Tucker Carlson that he could no longer make fun of Canada as "our socialist little buddy to the north."
This image was taken with a 50 mm lens by members of Expedition 36 aboard the International Space Station, the latest in a series of stunning images released to the public.
Over 2,600 employees from the San Francisco headquarters of Genentech celebrated the anniversary of the discovery of DNA by forming a human DNA strand reportedly the world's largest ever.