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/
Every now and then, I fantasize about the end of the world. I imagine what it would be like if it were just me left (and a few loved ones, I suppose). I run through all the fun to be had — the ...
https://bigthink.com/business/do-you-try-to-avoid-your-boss-for-isaiah-berlin-thats-a-big-problem/
Less than a century ago, we had many different ideas for what the history of our Universe looked like, but shockingly little evidence available to decide the issue. Hypotheses included suggestion...
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/cosmic-microwave-background-proves-big-bang/
Hunting for life on other planets is hard ; it’s like trying to spot an ant on the other end of a football field. The closest potential host, Venus, is 25 million miles away. Beyond our Solar S...
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/gaiasignatures-a-new-way-to-search-for-alien-life/
Many summers ago, when I was young, I got some booze, I got drunk, and I got a hangover. The next morning, I told my dad what happened over breakfast. “We had some wine at the restaurant,” I ...
There are a number of grand questions we can ask about the Universe that cut right to the very core of what reality actually is, and were some of the biggest head-scratchers for all of human hist...
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/better-measure-cosmic-time/
On Christmas Day, 2021, an Ariane 5 rocket leaped from its launch pad in French Guiana. Perched on the rocket’s nose was the long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The JWST was designe...
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/james-webb-space-telescope-cosmology/
In 2011, software engineer and satirist Manu Cornet posted a cartoon on his blog mocking Microsoft’s culture of cutthroat competition under CEO Steve Ballmer. The cartoon depicted the company�...