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Every week, we do a little round-up of comments from the Big Think Facebook. Here's some of the more intriguing ones of the week.
The political and economic ideas of socialism are coming back into fashion.
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Gene editing tool CRISPR could soon be lifting a page straight out of a Michael Crichton novel.
A proto-consciousness field theory could replace the theory of dark matter, one physicist states.
A new podcast, to cover an incredible story of why we can exist at all. “Already in my original paper I stressed the circumstance that I was unable to give a […]
Scientists film a closeup of DNA replication for the first time, leading to unexpected observations.
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You have three types of brain inside your brain. And they're all fighting for dominance.
For the Sgt. Pepper 50th anniversary remix, good intentions and modern technology revitalize a classic album.
The iconic physicist warns that we’d better find another planet in the next 100 years, or humanity is screwed.
Perhaps it is more doable now than when it was first proposed, back in the early 1980s
How the Universe’s expansion rate continues to baffle us. “In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.” -Henry Miller It’s the most fundamental law of special […]
The smart money is still on LIGO, but there sure looks like something funny is happening if the new group is correct. This article was contributed by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine […]
Orcas are trailing Alaskan fishermen and taking their halibut and black-cod catches.
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How do we move from 'ego' to 'we go'?
Is the government overpaying by $300 million? Elon Musk of SpaceX has long argued that there needs to be greater competition with the awarding of space launch contracts. New reports indicate that SpaceX may be $300 million less than the US government is currently paying.
Author and music producer Kabir Sehgal finds instruction on the true value of money running through the world’s sacred texts.
Now we know, on every scale. “There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without […]
The theory could solve certain stubborn physics questions such as, where’s all the antimatter.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is working in with video game developers to create a space exploration game called Space Odyssey.
In the glamor-filled world of drag queens, fashion and "ethical self-fashioning" might be closer than we think.