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There may be no American artist so linked with specific places and the history of those places as Andrew Wyeth. Wyeth spent his summers in Cushing, Maine, but the other […]
The fictional island has all the attributes necessary for a classic adventure story – including a bunch of intriguing place-names
Yesterday, Wired Editor-in-Chief and author of “Free: The Future of a Radical Price”, Chris Anderson, joined Big Think’s co-founder, Peter Hopkins, for an interview in Mountain View, CA. Anderson offered […]
From “crave” packs to Valentine bookings, the world’s first fast-food hamburger chain values innovation from every level of the organization.
With the right prompts, large language models can produce quality writing — and make us question the limits of human creativity.
Almost 100 years ago, an asymmetric pathology led Dirac to postulate the positron. A similar pathology could lead us to supersymmetry.
Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.
The most celebrated genius in human history didn’t just revolutionize physics, but taught many valuable lessons about living a better life.
From unexplained tracks in a balloon-borne experiment to cosmic rays on Earth, the unstable muon was particle physics’ biggest surprise.
Pure cinema is about removing redundancy so that even the smallest detail serves a purpose in relation to the bigger picture.
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
The replication crisis has debunked many of psychology’s fair-haired hypotheses, but for the marshmallow test, things have only become more interesting.
Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.
Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.
Many Americans aren’t rejecting spirituality, just practicing it differently.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher who praised a simple life and inspired the worst of the French Revolution.
A new wave of preventative cancer vaccines are set to begin trials.
Revolutionary techniques for understanding brain functions in animals could soon help us understand how emotions guide our lives.
Aerial drone footage was sent to an AI trained to track down space rocks.
Movie soundtracks don’t just help us recall the plot of a film; they also allow us to better understand its meaning.
The highest-energy particles of all come from space, not human-made colliders. When it comes to the most energetic particle collisions of all, you might think that the Large Hadron Collider […]
Science was never the same after meeting ‘the particle who lived.’ Back in the early 1930s, there were only a few known fundamental particles that made up the Universe. If you […]
Your health and the health of the planet are not indistinguishable.
Chemical engineers have developed a way to protect transplanted drug-producing cells from immune system rejection.
Maybe, but that probably doesn’t mean what you think it does. Of all the unsolved puzzles in the Universe, perhaps the most confounding is the dark matter problem. If we look […]
A revival is occurring, and we sure can use it.
Despite its prominence in our collective imagination, variations in metabolism play a minor role in obesity.
The buildings of the future will be fluid, impermanent, and in constant transformation. But will human nature catch up?