The Latest from Big Think

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A person lying in bed lacking sleep due to daylight saving time.
These studies are only the tip of the iceberg, with adverse consequence of the time change ranging from student test scores to stock market returns.
general index
The creator of the index called it a public utility for accessing the “vast ocean” of human knowledge.
flying cars
Battery-powered urban aircraft are well within the bounds of technological reality.
starshade Astro2020
Big dreams and big telescopes are back at last, but everything depends on sufficiently funding NASA, the NSF, and the DOE.
dune
Tighten your ‘thopter seatbelts and get those worm-hooks ready: we're going to unpack the hype surrounding Dune, both the book and the movie.
Mayan
Looking with lasers, researchers discovered that many Olmec and Mayan ruins seem to have been constructed from the same blueprint.
Our moral attitudes about sex and drugs share a genetic basis, suggests a recent study that examined the attitudes of more than 5,000 twins.
false vacuum
There's a big difference between the notions of 'false vacuum' and 'true vacuum' states. Here's why we don't want to live in the former.
uncertainty
We pretend to be in control, but we have frighteningly little knowledge upon which to base our life’s decisions.
JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi views the Earth from the International Space Station's cupola.
Awe makes us feel smaller but also more connected to life and each other.
night train
The “Euro Night Sprinter” map is utopian, but Europe’s rail future could look a lot like it.
A man and a woman drawing on a white board for an article on how your personality type affects your salary.
The highest earning Myers-Briggs personality type? ENTJ.
kalam cosmological argument
The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists has a cause, and what caused the Universe? It's got to be God.
emotions
The ability to differentiate your emotions might make you less likely to suffer from depression, alcoholism, and anger issues.
Day of the Dead parade.
Discover the history of homemade sugar skulls, home altars, and fantastical spirit animals.
Dune Sandworm
Before Herbert came along and wrote Dune, few if any sci-fi stories were set in fully realized universes.
Día de Muertos parade
Growing up in the United States, I remember on Halloween my mother used to say, “Honey, this is not just a day for costumes and candy. You must also remember […]
protoplanetary disk
In 2006, Pluto was demoted in a very controversial decision. Unless you ignore nearly all of planetary science, it'll never be one again.
animal with rhythm
A 12-year study shows that these large lemurs have a sophisticated sense of rhythm.