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Economist Thomas Piketty delves into several common misconceptions about free market economics and argues that strong public institutions are necessary for market regulation.
Big Think's Jason Gots reviews David McCullough's 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography John Adams.
Student loans are intended to provide everyone with equal access to education, but the staggering amount of student loan debt that Americans currently hold is retarding economic growth and entrenching wealth inequality.
Photographer Ansel Adams claimed that the goal of his art was “to rekindle an appreciation of the marvelous.” Ansel Adams: Eloquent Light at the Amon Carter Museum rekindles the marvelous […]
An atheist's case for why American democracy needs a more Christlike Christianity.
The platform is a digital Royal Society for today's greatest minds — and it could play an essential role in shaping the next civilization.
Long before the search for biosignatures, scientists imagined a cosmos teeming with intelligent life.
Why would someone who has spent their entire career following orders become a great leader overnight?
"The Big Map of Who Lived When" plots the lifespans of historical figures — from Eminem all the way back to Genghis Khan.
Here's the case for why science can't keep ignoring human experience.
If you find yourself on one of these roads, it might be a while before you see another fellow traveler.
A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.
Thomas Edison was on to something...
His greatest speeches were loaded with empathy.
This collection of learning and development quotes serves as a reminder of the meaning and purpose behind this important work.
The answer to the age-old philosophical question of whether there is meaning in the Universe may ultimately rest upon the power of information.
John Templeton Foundation
The popular game has a backstory rife with segregation, inequality, intellectual theft, and outlandish political theories.
Bernini created art for 8 different popes. In the process, he helped reinforce and redefine Christianity’s visual culture.
From succubi to aliens, stories of abductions or other unsettling encounters have been with us for millennia. What explains them?
The German-American cartoonist introduced the idea that Santa Claus traveled with a sleigh and reindeer.
Society-changing ideas form through a three-stage process, argues author Michael Bhaskar.
Gravitation, all on its own, can reveal what's present in the cosmos like nothing else.
Love him or hate, Karl Marx redefined geopolitics and shook up the world order.
Socrates is considered the "Father of Western Philosophy," but perhaps that honorific should go to Plato.
"The Expanse" is the best vision I've ever seen of a space-faring future that may be just a few generations away.
The opening lines of Smartmatic's $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News lay bare the culture of denial in the US.
To war is human – and Neanderthals were very like us.
Trump is #45 but Pence is #48 – and other strange consequences of the curious office of vice president.
Shouldn't mutually consenting adults be allowed to make these decisions for themselves?
From the Aquinas viewpoint, it was both a human and divine process.