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Think your job is stressful? Imagine if you had to do it strapped to the wings of a propellor plane. The Breitling Wingwalkers are a squadron of pilots and dancers […]
It's deceptively tricky to distinguish living systems from non-living systems. Physics may be key to solving the problem.
Researchers are making progress in the effort to develop safe and practical supernumerary robotic limbs.
Why are we prioritizing completion, rather than actual learning?
"Think R2D2," Walmart wrote in a press release. Others are thinking "layoffs."
Why did Jackie Robinson have to break baseball’s color line in 1947 after another man broke it almost 70 years before?
Our tolerance for slowpokes has declined over the past few decades.
If you know the sexually and racially charged art of Kara Walker, you know one thing—she’s not subtle. Walker’s artistic oeuvre to date makes the title of her newest work, […]
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How can you get individuals to experience a collective flow state - going into deeper contemplation and losing a sense of time?
Seventy-five years ago, The Museum of Modern Art staged their first exhibition devoted to the work of a single photographer—Walker Evans: American Photographer. That show brought together many of Walker […]
So lots of readers (about six) have written ME asking for advice on what book they should read to turn their lives around. Here’s my recommendation: Lost in the Cosmos by […]
After taking a vow of silence for 17 years and refusing any transportation, save his own feet, for 22, John Francis is speaking out about the lessons of conservation and planetary harmony.
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker defied a court order to ban citizens from the capitol building during his budget address. Citizens were left out in the cold while Walker’s allies were […]
"We were promised a life of leisure thanks to hard-working robots and fiendishly clever cyborgs. But the android fantasy has largely been terminated," says The Independent.
Scientists have figured out how independent, programmable nano-scale robots can be made out of individual molecules—with the robots’ actions programmed into their environment.
When you’re an infant, the brain makes three dots and a line into a face; later in life, it turns a creak and a shadow into a ghost. Adults too […]
"Artists know as well as anybody that music sells stuff, so why shouldn’t they sell the stuff too?" Rob Walker says musicians no longer lose credibility by marketing products.
n nOver the weekend, Rob Walker of the New York Times took a closer look at the evolving business model for Threadless.com, which has often been cited as an example […]
Strengthen your focus like a muscle.
If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can't do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
The fact that our Universe's expansion is accelerating implies that dark energy exists. But could it be even weirder than we've imagined?
The award-winning nature writer, Robert Macfarlane, talks with Big Think about how to reacquaint ourselves with the rivers in our lives.
Timothy Caulfield, a leading science communicator, discusses the challenges of combatting misinformation in an age of information overload.
“Could you create a god?” Nietzsche's titular character asks in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra."
We need a "theory that explains the evolution of evolution," argues theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker.
In "Life As No One Knows It," Sara Imari Walker explains why the key distinction between life and other kinds of "things" is how life uses information.
Each year, over half a million migrants cross the deadly jungle separating Colombia from Panama in search of a better life in the United States.
The evidence that the Universe is expanding is overwhelming. But how? By stretching the existing space, or by creating new space itself?
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.
First derived by Emmy Noether, for every symmetry a theory possesses, there's an associated conserved quantity. Here's the profound link.