The Latest from Big Think

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More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
Like his "Mona Lisa," Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine" depicts a woman in a way that flouted the conventions of its time.
Oxytocin can boost heart cells' ability to regenerate.
Many suspicious deaths of both humans and pets have been solved with the help of insects.
atom quantum
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?
The DART mission tested whether it's possible to deflect an asteroid by crashing something into it.
sean carroll
"Even with my training, I still got insights from the book’s descriptions. That’s how good Carroll is at explaining physics."
More than half of Americans feel anxious over their financial situation.
Million Stories
The School of Athens
From Aristotle's lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant's "scientific" racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
parallel universe
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
Urban legends help personify the anxieties that arise from living in a modern city.
elearning roi
If measuring eLearning ROI is so important, why aren’t more organizations doing it?