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–Guest post by Patrick Riley, AoE Culture Correspondent There was a time when mainstream media coverage of an upcoming movie would create buzz about the film. Nowadays, publications like the New […]
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Although social paranoia is more common than clinical paranoia, studies suggests that American society isn’t any more conspiratorial than it has been in the past.
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Uncovering the story of Milan Hausner, the Sadská clinic, and LSD psychotherapy behind the Iron Curtain.
We will have a better shot at improving our lives once we come to understand, know, and love the people we will one day become.
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The Knights Templar were not only skilled fighters, but also clever bankers who played a crucial role in the development of Europe’s financial systems.
Many Americans aren’t rejecting spirituality, just practicing it differently.
The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.
From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here’s a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.
MIT professor Azra Akšamija creates works of cultural resilience in the face of social conflict.
Remarkable ‘fan art’ commemorates 50th anniversary of legendary guitar player’s passing.
Ad Fontes Media wants to educate readers on where to find reliable sources of news and lessen the heat from the political flame wars.
She’s not a scientist, an expert, or even an adult. But she’s got one good lesson to teach us all. Like most people on Earth, Greta Thunberg is not a climate […]
Forensic cartography 101: Explain what Brasilia is doing on this map of 1920s South America.
Building Big Think from little more than an idea to 30 million monthly visitors, co-founder Victoria Rachel Montgomery-Brown knows something about being an entrepreneur. Her idea, together with co-founder Peter […]
Conspiracies do happen. So, how do you know which theories might be worth investigating?
Stephen Curry’s yearly salary is a cool $34 million. Where did all this money come from?
The Oxfam report prompted Anand Giridharadas to tweet: “Don’t be Pinkered into everything’s-getting-better complacency.”
The Nazis actively searched for Atlantis, seeing it as important to their mythology.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump claimed that Google is deliberately manipulating its algorithms to shut out conservative media outlets from news search results.
Support for increased gun control in the U.S. is slowly rising, but one group of Americans seems to change their minds faster than others.
Artificial intelligence has so far replaced more menial labor, but could it one day soon come for the more analytical positions in the economy like writers and reporters? What will become of journalism?
“The starting point for understanding inequality in the context of human progress is to recognize that income inequality is not a fundamental component of well-being.”
With his 51st Oscar nomination for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, composer John Williams has mastered the craft of the film score.