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Dr. Sacks died on 30 August 2015, in his home in Manhattan at the age of 82 from liver cancer.
Experts discuss the security challenges facing the world in 2018 at a panel of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The child has no control at all and the adult tries to control too much. But there is a third way.
Unconsidered productivity might leave you moving efficiently in the entirely wrong direction.
Those who know who they are — and what they truly value — refuse to compromise their authentic direction to placate others.
Does Platonic love actually exist?
With the right prompts, large language models can produce quality writing — and make us question the limits of human creativity.
Religion is a product of, and not a source of, our evolutionary moral dispositions.
Researchers are working nest by nest to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods.
“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?”
Big Think spoke with animator and animation historian Tom Sito about the cyclical evolution of animation.
"She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
Late-night shows, developed during the "golden age" of TV, are no longer as relevant in the age of streaming services and Donald Trump.
A new technique for analyzing networks can tell who wields soft power.
Out of all the galaxies we know, only a few little ones are missing dark matter. At last, we finally understand why.
What was once an art form has been drained of color and personality by ruthless algorithms. Can we make chess human again?
The problems that Americans face are often too complex for fact-checking alone.
A wild, compelling idea without a direct, practical test, the Multiverse is highly controversial. But its supporting pillars sure are stable.
Even without the greatest individual scientist of all, every one of his great scientific advances would still have occurred. Eventually.
As the first Friedmann equation celebrates its 99th anniversary, it remains the one equation to describe our entire universe.
The "overview effect," experienced by astronauts when they view the Earth from outer space, irrevocably changes your perspective as a human.
Everything else in the universe is either a particle or field. Dark energy behaves as neither, and it may be a property inherent to space itself.
Deniers will never stop misleading others. Here’s the truth. Every so often, advocates of a fringe theory — one that doesn’t fit the evidence as well as the mainstream theory — do what they can […]
Which is good, because if they do, they violate the cosmological principle. In theory, the Universe should be the same, on average, everywhere. A simulation of the large-scale structure of […]
We can describe what we see happening, but we don’t understand why. Despite our vast cosmic knowledge, enormous unknowns remain. The quantum fluctuations inherent to space, stretched across the Universe […]
Dark matter must gravitate, so why couldn’t the graviton solve it? One of the most puzzling observations about the Universe is that there isn’t enough matter — at least, matter that we know […]
And what might we learn as we collect new, never-before-seen data? If you took one of history’s top scientists from 100 years ago and dropped them into today’s world, what […]
If you want to get the Universe we see, a multiverse comes along for the ride. When we look out at the Universe today, it simultaneously tells us two stories about […]