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 […]
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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 […]
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?
Are some of the most particular painting styles in history the result of impoverished vision, or a conscious artistic choice made by the artist?
The hysteria about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. Here’s how to tone it down.
Elon Musk revealed some new details about the early stages of the Boring Company’srnplans to transform the mass-transit system in Los Angeles.
In an immersive virtual environment, what will it be like to kill?
The Internet solves another mystery.
We always assume that dark matter is particle-based, and we just need to find which particle it is. But what if it isn’t so? Everything we’ve ever detected in the Universe, […]
Every year, companies try to do things better, to find the most effective way to complete some task or to improve overall productivity. Employee learning programs play a massive part […]
Last week, the crew found themselves in the mirror Universe. Here’s what science has to say about that. Star Trek: Discovery entered their midseason hiatus on a terrific cliffhanger: they had […]