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The Electoral College system is anachronistic, disillusioning, and unpopular. Here’s a better plan.
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The happiest moments of our lives are when we lose ourselves – in art, in exercise, in love. According to Harvard's Diane Paulus, being able to 'play' and engage in something outside of ourselves is a valuable respite from our egos.
A new partnership is leveraging the power of AI to hunt down online sex traffickers.
Much news on the Internet is very similar to the dangerous "yellow journalism" of history.
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Columbia professor Tim Wu came to the Big Think studio to talk about clickbait. What happened next will shock you.
We can all rattle off a few Greek philosophers to win a trivia prize, but how many Golden Age philosophers are you familiar with? Here's a primer.
The reports that our Solar System is missing the galaxy’s most common type of planet are greatly exaggerated. “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a […]
Electronics factory workers in Shenzen have a their own manufacturing scene going at night.
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Farewell Moon, we barely knew you. Bill Nye knows the Moon is moving away from Earth 1.48 inches per year. Will it keep drifting further away, and what happens to Earth when it does?
In response to the president elect, NASA's leadership is developing strategies for continuing deep space exploration in the event of budget change or stagnation.
Trump's impending presidency has left marijuana advocates with fingers crossed on one hand, with the other ready to flush the toilet at a moment’s notice.
A huge body of water beneath a Bolivian volcano has scientists excited.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden told an audience we should not be "putting too much faith or fear elected officials." This includes Donald Trump.
In its latest efforts to keep improving its curriculum and make its pupils more equipped to succeed in the modern world, Finland has rethought the concept of a subject for its basic schools (students aged 7 to 16).
With a whole-planet comparison, you’d never confuse the two worlds. But from their surfaces, telling them apart is harder than you’d think. Image credit: NASA. Think you can tell the red […]
These clinics offer shining testimonials. Yet, the technique has not been proven safe and effective.
Under President Trump, the state-level requirements mandating credit from utility companies for excess power sent back to the grid should survive.
You wouldn’t know it, but plants are constantly taking in information.
Canada puts its money where its mouth is and prepares for a 'no strings attached' basic income trial that it hopes will break the cycle of poverty.
A study by University of Toronto psychologists reveals how to have a happy sex life in a long-term relationship.