Here’s why scary stories were once an integral part of Christmas Eve festivities.
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The natural world evolved many pop culture frights long before storytellers used them to terrify us.
Reading classic books can inform you as much about the present as the past.
The fellowship’s journey through Middle-Earth mirrors the modernization of the English countryside.
Some classic books, like Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” remain controversial to this day.
Take a trip through these master-crafted fantasy societies and ask yourself: Could I actually live there?
An innovation’s value is found between the technophile’s promises and the Luddite’s doomsday scenarios.
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
The vaccine provided protection for mouse and ferret models.
The shift from steam to electricity was inevitable — but some foresaw it earlier than others.
We might be dining on insect-based Christmas pies with robot-harvested algae on the side.
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
Synthetic milk is not a sci-fi fantasy; it already exists.
Forget about Tinkerbell.
How efficiently could quantum engines operate?
Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?
Take a look at the Times Square Totem, the Trafalgar Square Pyramid, and other landmarks that were never built.
Historically, periods of mass flourishing are underpinned by technological revolutions. Currently, we are undergoing a technological revolution unlike anything the world has ever seen.
For consumers of festive beverages, the news is bad: this holiday season, Guinness may not be on tap and glass for bottling wine is scarce. Climate disasters, like British Columbia’s floods, have further weakened already […]
She helped create CRISPR, a gene-editing technology that is changing the way we treat genetic diseases and even how we produce food.
Big Think co-founder and CEO Victoria Brown breaks down the process of transitioning from founder to boss in her new book, Digital Goddess.
Big Think’s co-founder and CEO, Victoria Montgomery Brown, offers six pieces of advice to founders in her forthcoming book.
For northern hemisphere skywatchers, it might just be the century’s best comet so far. Every once in a while, large, icy objects pass through the inner Solar System. C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) […]
‘The Broad and Narrow Way’ helped 19th-century preachers explain the consequences of virtue and vice.
Ever wonder, exactly, how stars form from molecular gas and dust? So do scientists. One of the great challenges for astronomy is to determine, in gory detail, how stars are […]
The problem is going to get a lot worse before it gets better, and the decision is all up to SpaceX whether they’ll fix it. On Wednesday morning, January 29, 2020, […]
Despite warnings and protestations from astronomers and skywatchers, Starlink is moving fast and breaking things. In May of this year, Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the first group of its new satellite […]
Some lingerie lines have failed to keep up with a new era.
He says his company would survive even if Instagram disappeared tomorrow.