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Big Think spoke with historian Marc-William Palen about the egalitarian aims of the free-trade movement in past centuries.
Bertrand Russell shows us how to recognize emotional arguments smuggled into presumed statements of fact.
Leap day only comes once every four years, including in 2024. But the reason we have it, including when we do and don't, may surprise you.
The detection of two celestial interlopers careening through our solar system has scientists eagerly anticipating more.
Esperanto was intended to be an easy-to-learn second language that enabled you to speak with anyone on the planet.
About three out of every four people arrested in the U.S. are men. That rate is similar across the world.
As we pursue the leadership difference we seek, we attract fuel and generate heat. The trick is to avoid burnout.
There are many problems with relying on SAT and ACT scores for college admissions. But removing them entirely creates less opportunity.
In 1924, sociologist and social reformer Caroline Bartlett Crane designed an award-winning tiny home in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
After listening to the same playlist, people from the United Kingdom, the United States, and China reported feeling nearly identical bodily sensations.
The benefits of going the extra mile to be socially responsible are felt by customers, employees, and shareholders alike. Here’s a plan to secure them.
For now, our Solar System's eight planets are all safe, and relatively stable. Billions of years from now, everything will be different.
Its creators hope the technology will help people meaningfully connect with the external world.
Meanwhile meteorite hunters rushed to Berlin to find this most rare space rock.
NASA gave three robots plans for a moon shelter, and the robots figured out how to build it.
Until the Apollo missions, we had no idea how the moon got here, just a series of educated guesses. They rewrote the story of the moon’s origins.
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Social media distorts reality. Here’s how to take it back.
It's time for an honest conversation.
There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life's final extinction will occur.