Hacker News
- Light and gravitational waves don't arrive simultaneously https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/light-gravitational-waves-arrive/ 21 comments
- You don’t see objective reality objectively https://bigthink.com/thinking/objective-reality-2/ 3 comments
- Space miners race to an asteroid worth quintillions https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/space-miners-race-to-an-asteroid-worth-quintillions 3 comments
- Free Will is a Cognitive Illusion http://bigthink.com/in-their-own-words/free-will-is-a-cognitive-illusion 5 comments
- Does Depression Go Away on Its Own? http://bigthink.com/devil-in-the-data/does-depression-go-away-on-its-own 2 comments
- Why gravitational waves are the future of astronomy https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/gravitational-waves-future-astronomy/ 3 comments space
- Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) by George Orwell – Map Guide https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/orwell-in-paris/ 5 comments books
- Previosuly unknown strains of bacteria found living on the International Space Station could help in producing food in space https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/bacteria-in-space?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1 3 comments space
- A historian identifies the worst year in human history: 536 AD https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/worst-year-in-human-history 33 comments history
- 10 new year's resolutions you can steal from philosophers https://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/10-new-years-resolutions-you-can-steal-from-philosophers 5 comments philosophy
- Speed of light exceeded with gamma-ray jets! https://www.google.com/amp/s/bigthink.com/surprising-science/astrophysicists-gamma-ray-jets-speed-of-light.amp.html 7 comments space
- Notre Dame rebuild proposal would bring solar glass, urban farm to cathedral roof https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/notre-dame-redesign 71 comments technology
- 12 years untill the start of the end https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/scary-un-climate-change-report 15 comments worldnews
- Golden blood: The rarest blood in the world https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/golden-blood 5 comments science
- 10 philosophy books for developing a diverse metaphysical perspective https://bigthink.com/mind-brain/10-philosophy-books-for-developing-a-diverse-metaphysical-perspective 4 comments philosophy
- 90% of Americans would take a pay cut for a more meaningful job https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/harvard-business-review-americans-meaningful-work 113 comments business
- Black holes are actually giant fuzzballs of string, claims new research https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/black-holes-are-actually-giant-fuzzballs-of-string-claims-new-research 63 comments space
- Chilling predictions of modern America https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/34-years-ago-a-kgb-defector-described-america-today 5 comments worldnews
- A new study shows that cancer patients who chose alternative remedies alongside conventional treatments were twice as likely to die from the disease. Complementary treatments comprise a multi-billion-dollar industry, one that’s been booming in recent years. https://bigthink.com/stephen-johnson/study-cancer-patients-who-choose-alternative-treatments-twice-as-likely-to-die 6 comments science
- People with depression use language differently http://bigthink.com/the-conversation/people-with-depression-use-language-differently-nil-heres-how-to-spot-it?utm_campaign=echobox&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook 18 comments linguistics
- Breaking Up Feels Different for Men and Women: Women tended to feel the strongest physical and emotional pain following a breakup. Meanwhile, for men, the loss will linger for longer than for women. http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/breaking-up-feels-different-for-men-and-women 21 comments science
- Perceptual Information is Shaped by Natural Selection to reflect Utility, Not to depict Reality. Thank Evolution for your completely made-up view of Reality. http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/we-survive-because-reality-may-be-nothing-like-we-think-it-is 33 comments cogsci
- Trump Against the Machine: How Political Elites Failed [by philosopher/social critic Slavoj Žižek] http://bigthink.com/videos/slavoj-zizek-on-donald-trump-presidency 6 comments politics
- Michio Kaku says, big evolutionary changes are probably behind us http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/are-big-evolutionary-changes-over-for-us-now-because-lifes-so-easy 4 comments science
- Scientists Use Swarms of Nanorobots to Precisely Target Cancer Cells http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/breakthrough-tech-scientists-make-swarms-of-nanorobots-precisely-target-cancer-cells 5 comments science
- World's First Human Head Transplant Going Ahead http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-going-ahead 33 comments technology
- Computer scientists used Google's Page-Rank algorithm to determine the most significant people of all time http://bigthink.com/think-tank/can-wikipedia-tell-us-the-most-significant-person-in-history 3 comments history
- The hungrier we are, the more risk we are willing to take (with money) http://bigthink.com/risk-reason-and-reality/the-risks-of-hunger-it-makes-you-take-more-risks 9 comments science
- "the producers of Man of Steel are guilty of pseudo-intellectualism and sheer hackery. They have managed to, at once, insult both human history's most important intellectual discipline and the message of their own movie" http://bigthink.com/think-tank/superman-should-not-study-philosophy 37 comments philosophy
- "Man of Steel is all about Plato’s Republic, something that would hit you immediately if you had actually read that great book" (x-post from r/Plato) http://bigthink.com/rightly-understood/reading-plato-with-the-man-of-steel 136 comments philosophy
- "The Purpose of Philosophy is to Ask the Right Questions" - Slavoj Žižek http://bigthink.com/postcards-from-zizek/the-purpose-of-philosophy-is-to-ask-the-right-questions-video 10 comments philosophy
- We don't make enough of a distinction in public debate between 'healthy' paedophiles, people who are not paedosexually active, and delinquent paedosexuals. http://bigthink.com/against-the-new-taboo/virtual-child-porn-and-paedophilia 19 comments science
- Howard Dean: I think we ought to go over the cliff. It will take 7 ½ trillion dollars out of our deficit. Any politician who tells the American people there aren't going to be any sacrifices for everybody is a liar and I do not want the sacrifices to be on the backs of the middle class. http://bigthink.com/ideas/47155 17 comments politics
- If Romney is Thurston Howell III, then Obama is The Professor http://bigthink.com/marriage-30/if-romney-is-thurston-howell-iii-then-obama-is-the-professor 5 comments politics
- In China, 78 percent of software is pirated, compared to 20 percent in the US http://www.bigthink.com/ideas/42103 28 comments worldnews
- Strange Maps: "War is the National Industry of Prussia" http://bigthink.com/ideas/37937 4 comments history
- Mapping the Human Brain in 3-D: The Holy Grail of Artificial Intelligence & Brain Research -- The Human Connectome http://bigthink.com/ideas/24567 8 comments science
- The Neurobiology of Evil: Columbia University clinical psychiatry professor Michael Stone shows how detailed brain scans are revealing the biological origins of psychopathic behavior. http://bigthink.com/ideas/23882 15 comments science
- Sam Harris On Death http://bigthink.com/ideas/3127 3 comments philosophy
- Stephen Fry on philosophy, morality and the importance of unbelief. http://bigthink.com/ideas/17864 3 comments philosophy
Linking pages
- Sorry, Trump voters: Those factory jobs aren't coming back — because they don't exist anymore | Salon.com http://www.salon.com/2017/01/11/sorry-trump-voters-those-factory-jobs-arent-coming-back-because-they-dont-exist-anymore/ 461 comments
- Why capitalism won’t survive without socialism - Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/25/15998002/eric-weinstein-capitalism-socialism-revolution 245 comments
- We Might Have Accidentally Killed the Only Life We Ever Found on Mars Nearly 50 Years Ago - JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/we-might-have-accidentally-killed-the-only-life-we-ever-found-on-mars/ 173 comments
- The Carrington Event of 1859 Disrupted Telegraph Lines. A “Miyake Event” Would Be Far Worse - JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/the-carrington-event-of-1859-disrupted-telegraph-lines/ 153 comments
- A Map of Personality in the USA Based on States - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/usa-personality-map?mc_cid=0a0fa67dfd 147 comments
- There Are at Least 10 Cities With Their Own Psychological Disorders - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cities-with-psychological-syndromes-stockholm 118 comments
- “Burned House” Mystery: Why Did This Ancient Culture Torch Its Own Homes Every 60 Years? - JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/burned-house-mystery-why-did-this-ancient-culture-torch-its-own-homes-every-60-years/ 108 comments
- The Hunt for Life in Alpha Centauri - JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/the-hunt-for-life-in-alpha-centauri/ 104 comments
- The Mysterious Dodecahedrons of the Roman Empire - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dodecahedrons-roman-empire 100 comments
- How Did the Chess Pieces Get Their Names? - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-did-chess-pieces-get-their-names 79 comments
- New Paper Argues That the Universe Began with Two Big Bangs - JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/new-paper-argues-that-the-universe-began-with-two-big-bangs/ 70 comments
- Why capitalism won’t survive without socialism - Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/25/15998002/capitalism-socialism-peter-thiel-wall-street-eric-weinstein 68 comments
- See Language Difficulty of European Languages According to This Map - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/language-difficulty-map 64 comments
- After 50 years, fusion power hits a major milestone https://www.freethink.com/energy/fusion-power-milestone-future-energy 52 comments
- This Map of Paris Catacombs Shows the History and Future of the Underground Graveyard - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-maps-paris-catacombs 42 comments
- The Paratethys Sea Was the Largest Lake in Earth’s History - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-maps-paratethys-sea 39 comments
- A Hot Air Balloon Gave Us the First Aerial Map - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flying-circus-aerial-maps 15 comments
- Theory of mind: How chess players and drug dealers manipulate others https://www.freethink.com/culture/theory-of-mind-manipulation 13 comments
- 150+ Educational Websites For Lifelong Learners | by Janet Alexandersson | Medium https://medium.com/@imaginetta/150-educational-websites-for-lifelong-learners-71c1d8e94843 11 comments
- Thoughts About BigThink • TechCrunch http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/07/thoughts-about-bigthink/ 8 comments