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Scientific research increasingly throws doubt on the question of free will. If it doesn’t exist, or if it is extremely limited, what would it mean for the New Year’s resolutions you may be making?
In a study, individuals whose diets were rich in essential vitamins performed better on cognitive tests and showed less brain shrinkage, a symptom of Alzheimer’s, as they aged.
This short animation was submitted to Big Think by Morgan Miller. You can visit his site at www.slushingbrooks.com. “Slushing Brooks is the name of the fictious working class neighborhood where most of […]
An increasing number of colleges are beginning to offer courses or entire programs devoted to green business practices. Bard College is the latest to offer an MBA in sustainable business.
A former Apple engineer who launched his own wireless networking start up puts his customers in direct contact with his engineers. Running a lean business keeps him competitive.
The best businesspeople don’t know everything. They’re the ones who are brave and truthful enough to admit mistakes—and learn the most from them along the way.
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No single online social network will ever replace Facebook, says Alexis Madrigal. Social networks will build on top of each other and people will belong to several networks at once.
Did you go to the movies in 2011? Many hundreds of millions of people did, resulting in 1.26 billion tickets sold worldwide. And yet, this is the lowest amount of tickets […]
Augmented reality will be mainstream, digital assistants will guide our every move, everything will be translated on the fly, we’ll use digital scrolls. What else will 2025 bring?
As Christmas approached, the residents of Whoville got happier and happier. But did this positive emotion make the Grinch want to lash out? Neuroscience has some illuminating answers.
When depressed individuals were placed in an fMRI scan and shown photos of their mother, their reactions were much stronger than healthy people. The technique could aid in diagnosis.
US officials have asked the nation’s premier scientific journals not to publish new research that discusses how the H5N1 bird flu virus was engineered to carry from human to human.
Big companies start off with verve and energy and aspiration and incredible values outside the marketplace that fuel their growth, the grow to the point that they’re no longer in […]
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Be bold in the face of unanimous decisions, says entrepreneur and author Margaret Heffernan. Neuroscience, sociology and business meetings underscore her point.
In our tough economic times, some are drawn to the stability purchasing a franchise can offer. But they are not immune to difficulties. Here’s how some franchises are getting on.
PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics for testing special clothing used by US military personnel. PETMAN balances itself as it walks, squats and does calisthenics. PETMAN simulates […]
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In Europe, pedestrians avoid running into each other by stepping to the right. In Asia, people step to the left. What accounts for these differences and how can crowd science be used to improve cities?
Just as he stretches the boundaries of our imaginations, Dr. Michio Kaku pushes the limits of the philosofro. NEXT >>
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