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Scientists paid a load of young people to get drunk and then analysed the results to find out which alcoholic beverages produced the worst hangover – with interesting results!
An engineering team has developed face recognition software which they claim is “remarkably accurate in realistic situations” unlike existing face recognition systems.
Aurora borealis, or the Northern Lights, can sometimes collide producing spectacular displays of light according to NASA which deployed cameras around the Arctic to catch the phenomenon.
Yale psychology professor Paul Bloom loves investigating the things that make our minds uniquely human, from fiction and art to religion and morality. But where many scientists would be content […]
The House of Representatives has passed legislation declaring Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue album to be a masterpiece.
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured new images of a nebula in our galactic neighborhood just in time for the holidays.
In an effort to publicize a marginalized community, India has held its first ever transsexual beauty pageant.
Radiohead’s front man attended the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference and has posted his observations on the band’s website.
The biographer of the late Edward Kennedy says that the senator would have supported the healthcare bill currently before the Senate.
The final two Democratic holdouts have been brought on board by eliminating the public option and making pork barrel promises.
Iran’s most senior dissident cleric who accused the government of being a dictatorship died today after 25 years under house arrest.
The number of executions in the U.S. has dropped for the seventh straight year while more defendants are exonerated by DNA evidence.
The East Coast snow storm has authorities scrambling to free up resources to save Christmas (shopping).
States are unable to investigate fraudulent federal stimulus spending due to layoffs in auditor and legal offices caused by the recession.
World leaders left the Copenhagen conference before signing an agreement that would obligate countries to reduce emissions.
Large concessions were made to get the most conservative Democratic Senator on board with healthcare legislation to be unveiled today.
The Department of Homeland Security is studying physical characteristics like strained facial expressions that could betray malintent.
Iranian soldiers took an Iraqi oil well on Thursday night long enough to evacuate Iraqi workers and hoist Iran’s flag inside the well.
Scientists have created synthetic red blood cells that can effectively carry oxygen as well as medicine throughout the body.
A new study indicates that drinking dark liquors like Bourbon is more likely to give you a nasty hangover than clear liquors such as Vodka.
Scientists may have discovered a batch of the mysterious dark matter which makes up 95% of the universe in—Minnesota. Where else?
Some 100 Guantanamo inmates are scheduled to be relocated to an empty prison in the rural town of Thompson, Illinois raising several legal questions.
France has fined Google $14,000 per day until extracts of French books are removed from Google’s online book-digitization project.
Seven more banks have been closed by regulators as mortgage lenders suffer plummeting real-estate prices that will likely cause more banks to close in the future.
This afternoon, Michael Kupperman, the man Conan O’Brien calls “one of the best comedy brains on the planet,” came in for his close-up with Big Think. Despite freezing weather in […]
Well, not exactly. But Jessica Valenti, founder of Feministing.com, spoke with Big Think about how she admires the pop star for her pluck and blunt sexuality. Much of the interview […]
Researchers claim a woman’s attractiveness is not in the eye of the beholder but is instead to do with the “golden ratio” or distance between key facial factors such as nose and mouth.
A fragment of a temple to Isis submerged for centuries but recently hoisted from the Mediterranean sea is believed to date back to the era of Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
Some struggling mortgage-holders are finding themselves having their homes sold from under them without notice by banks, according to McClatchy.
The popular microblogging Web site Twitter was hacked overnight, leaving the millions who use the site tweetless.