Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkTechnology Smartly dressed: Researchers develop clothes that sense movement via touch bigthink.com - Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL In recent years there have been exciting breakthroughs in wearable technologies, like smartwatches that can monitor your breathing and blood oxygen …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkConsciousness Do you worry too much? Stoicism can help bigthink.com - Jonny Thomson Are you a worrier? Do you imagine nightmare scenarios and then get worked up and anxious about them? Does your mind get caught in a horrible spiral …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkCharities Study: People will donate more to charity if they think something’s in it for them bigthink.com - Scotty Hendricks Even the best charities with the longest records of doing great fundraising work have to spend some time making sure that the next donation checks …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkNature 160-million-year-old ‘Monkeydactyl’ was the first animal to develop opposable thumbs bigthink.com - Stephen Johnson A newly discovered flying dinosaur nicknamed "Monkeydactyl" is the oldest known creature that evolved opposable thumbs, according to new research …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkVideo Games Is it good for you? According to Nietzsche, it's better to ask, "Does it dance?" bigthink.com - Kimerer LaMothe Friedrich Nietzsche's body of work is notoriously difficult to navigate. He wrote in multiple styles, including essays, aphorisms, poems, and …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkVideo Games When great video games make great art bigthink.com - Adam Frank There are basically two kinds of people in the world: those who play (or played) video games and those who don't get video games at all.Okay, I admit …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkNetflix Brain-controlled chess is here bigthink.com - Derek Beres By November 2020, The Queen's Gambit had been watched in over 62 million households, making it the most-watched scripted limited series in Netflix …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkAristotle Why Aristotle didn't invent modern science bigthink.com - Michael Strevens Modern science has done astounding things: sending probes to Pluto, discerning the nature of light, vaccinating the globe. Its power to plumb the …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkGratitude How gratitude makes you more attractive bigthink.com - Dr. Sara Algoe
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkPhysics Could muons point to new physics? bigthink.com - Marcelo Gleiser If brute force doesn't work, then look into the peculiarities of nothingness. This may sound like a Zen koan, but it's actually the strategy that …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkBenjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin on how to be a nice, likable person bigthink.com - Jonny Thomson Think of the nicest person you know. The person who would fit into any group configuration, who no one can dislike, or who makes a room warmer and …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkThe Brain Our ancestors first developed humanlike brains 1.7 million years ago bigthink.com - Stephen Johnson • Using computed tomography, a team of researchers generated images of what the brains of early Homo species likely looked like. • The team then compared …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkVolcanoes We're creating pigs with human immune systems to study illness bigthink.com - Christopher Tuggle & Adeline Boettcher The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires all new medicines to be tested in animals before use in people. Pigs make better medical research …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkBenjamin Franklin A new warning sign to predict volcanic eruptions? bigthink.com - Stephen Johnson How can modern technology help warn us of impending volcanic eruptions?One promising answer may lie in satellite imagery. In a recent study published …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkMario Kart Moral and economic lessons from Mario Kart bigthink.com - Scotty Hendricks • A new essay compares the power-up system in Mario Kart to feedback loops in real-life systems. • Both try to provide targeted benefits to those who most …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkPregnancy Stressed-out mothers are twice as likely to give birth to a girl bigthink.com - Derek Beres • A new study found that women with elevated stress before, during, and after conception are twice as likely to deliver a girl. • One factor could be that …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkMoney The cost of world peace? It's much less than the price of war bigthink.com - Douglas Broom What is the price of peace?Or put another way, how much better off would we all be in a world where armed conflict was avoided?Around $14.4 trillion …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkRainforests The evolution of modern rainforests began with the dinosaur-killing asteroid bigthink.com - Stephen Johnson About 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into present-day Chicxulub, Mexico, triggering the extinction of dinosaurs. Scientists …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkInfant Mortality New study determines how many mothers have lost a child by country bigthink.com - Scotty Hendricks Among the best indicators of societal progress over the last few decades has been the remarkable decline in infant and child mortality rates …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkAsteroids Scientists test how to deflect asteroids with nuclear blasts bigthink.com - Paul Ratner • Researchers studied strategies that could deflect a large asteroid from hitting Earth. • They focused on the effect of detonating a nuclear device near …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkAsteroids Scientists test how to deflect asteroids with nuclear blasts bigthink.com - Paul Ratner Large asteroids don't tend to hit Earth very often. But when they do, major cataclysms result. Remember the dinosaurs?Add to this the fact that since …
Big Thinkflipped into Big Think Regret over a hookup doesn’t change our behavior bigthink.com - Robby Berman When it comes to sexual encounters, both women and men may be left with feelings of regret in the fading afterglow. Women, according to recent …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkSexuality Regret over a hookup doesn’t change our behavior bigthink.com - Robby Berman • Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology investigate the degree to which regret regarding sexual encounters makes us …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkHealth It turns out, not all sitting is bad for you bigthink.com - Wuyou Sui & Harry Prapavessis The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced a number of new behaviours into daily routines, like physical distancing, mask-wearing and hand sanitizing. …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkCoffee VR experiments manipulate how people feel about coffee bigthink.com - Paul Ratner Are coffee consumers influenced by the imagery and story around the production of the drink? Such was one of the central questions of a new study …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkGodzilla Godzilla vs. Kong: A morphologist chooses the real winner bigthink.com - Kiersten Formoso The 2021 film “Godzilla vs. Kong" pits the two most iconic movie monsters of all time against each other. And fans are now picking sides.Even the …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkDeepfakes How do you tell reality from a deepfake? bigthink.com - John Letzing • The number of deepfake videos online has been increasing at an estimated annual rate of about 900%. • Technology advances have made it increasingly easy …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkArt Ancient cave artists were getting high on hypoxia bigthink.com - Robby Berman • Hundreds of prehistoric paintings have been found in subterranean chambers with barely enough oxygen to breathe. • Low oxygen causes hypoxia that can …
Big Thinkflipped into Big ThinkArt Ancient cave artists were getting high on hypoxia bigthink.com - Robby Berman • Hundreds of prehistoric paintings have been found in subterranean chambers with barely enough oxygen to breathe. • Low oxygen causes hypoxia that can …
