In 1978, Dan White murdered San Francisco city Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. Of this, there was no doubt. White had turned himself in, then tearfully and remorsefully confessed...
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/is-the-twinkie-defense-legitimate/
Join physicist Sean Carroll in a thought-provoking exploration of how life emerges in a universe governed by the second law of thermodynamics, which dictates an inevitable increase in disorder. T...
https://bigthink.com/the-well/sean-carroll-on-entropy-complexity-origins-of-life/
Explaining our disposition to work has two major dimensions. However, neither is widely understood or practiced. Many organizations seem perplexed or even agnostic about employee motivation. For ...
https://bigthink.com/business/the-science-of-motivation-5-simple-fixes-for-team-engagement/
When it comes to the Universe, it’s easy to make the incorrect assumption that what we see is an accurate reflection of all that’s out there. Certainly, what we observe to be out there really...
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/interpret-data-dark-energy/
The river known today as the Adige, the second-longest in Italy , flows south and then east from the Alps to the Adriatic. As it travels around hills and through flatlands, the river meanders wi...
In an attempt to study the spine, scientists in Portugal accidentally created a mouse embryo with an extra pair of hind legs, where its genitals should be — and the strange turn of events co...
https://bigthink.com/life/turning-off-one-gene-causes-mice-to-grow-6-legs/
Satellite internet startup Astranis is on a mission to help everyone in the world get online — and it just unveiled the satellite that could be the key to its success. THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: An...
https://bigthink.com/the-future/astranis-new-internet-satellite/
In 1954, psychologist Muzafer Sherif engineered a tribal war between two groups of 11-year-old boys in two camps inside Robbers Cave State Park, Oklahoma. They were given tasks, rewards, and obje...
Student loans continue to burden adults decades after they’ve left school, and credit card debt haunts many Americans. On the flip side, many of us make leveraged investments in our homes, taki...
> I have a group of cycling friends and we all go mountain biking > together away about twice a year. I get on well with everyone apart > from , who recently ruined...
https://bigthink.com/thinking/disinviting-troublesome-friends/