The Latest from Big Think

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We've heard it before: Artificial Intelligence is coming to take our jobs. But is it really their fault, or the company that can't figure out how to create new ones?
Weatherman Alan Sealls of WKRG in Mobile, Alabama knows how to explain Hurricane Irma.
Scientists discover that humans are still evolving, with natural selection weeding out certain diseases.
Scientists in Japan have discovered why yawning is so contagious.
It isn’t just supernovae or neutron star collisions that make the heaviest elements. The physics might surprise you! “Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he’s got iron teeth.” -Andrei A. […]
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More modern cars are easier to hack. So are pacemakers and other medical devices. What does that mean for the future?
The first pop album composed and produced by AI, and Taryn Southern.
There are four main stages. Each has its own particular set of advancements and challenges.   
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Author Salman Rushdie on the secret life of cities and so much more. 
New research suggests that whale stranding are the result of the navigational mistakes cause by the same magnetic anomalies that produce the aurora borealis.
Caffeine makes us feel more awake but also decreases our ability to taste sweetness
How the gravitational Casimir effect might cause our Universe’s accelerated expansion, without any new physics at all. “For although it is certainly true that quantitative measurements are of great importance, it […]
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All science begins with a leap of intuition, says Richard Dawkins, but we can only ever find objective truths by knowing when to let evidence take over from emotion.
John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, and Maya Angelou all had different approaches to writing. Here's some of their best advice. 
Can imagination be measured and quantified? That's what scientists at the University of Pennsylvania's Imagination Institute are trying to figure out.
This research may help us develop diamonds for products and better understand nuclear fusion.   
These may not be the only social predators that do.  
As a leader, setting up an innovation training course for your employees can be tough. Not only do you have to account for how employees access training resources (online video […]
Are we about to make a breakthrough to go beyond black holes? Here’s what it means if we do! “It’s becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only […]