"Penny Universities": How coffeehouses changed the world - Big Think
Coffeehouses were once places where academics would gather to learn. For the price of a coffee, you could get yourself quite an education.| Big Think
Coffeehouses were once places where academics would gather to learn. For the price of a coffee, you could get yourself quite an education.| Big Think
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.| Big Think
Congolese uranium fueled the Manhattan Project, exposing the ties between colonial exploitation, global warfare, and propaganda.| Big Think
In "Dinner with King Tut," Sam Kean examines how a burgeoning field is recreating ancient tasks to uncover historical truths.| Big Think
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.| Big Think
It’s no easy thing uniting millions of people over thousands of miles. And so, we need to whip up a mighty lie to help.| Big Think
In the early 1900s, some Americans feared that teddy bears would not instill maternal instincts in girls, thereby causing "race suicide."| Big Think
In "Cross Purposes," journalist Jonathan Rauch argues that American democracy needs a more Christlike Christianity.| Big Think
The Gospels aren’t historical biographies but genre-defining works that blend myth, theology, and a promise of hope.| Big Think
Experts and Big Think writers recommend their favorite reads for diving deeper into the history and perspectives found in the Book of Books.| Big Think
From medieval myths to Shakespeare's plays and modern cinema, British culture has kept the Roman Empire alive long after its fall.| Big Think
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.| Big Think
We need to fully acknowledge problems, while vigorously pursuing solutions, writes Jason Crawford. Call it “solutionism.”| Big Think
The tonal Navajo language differentiates words based on pitch and makes Spanish conjugation look like child’s play.| Big Think
Science can be thought of as a series of maps of nature, striving to be ever more complete, as models and theories evolve.| Big Think
Using new measurement techniques, archaeologists discovered that cave paintings in Indonesia are even older than previously thought.| Big Think
From slithering snakes to falling cats, here's how animals negotiate the laws of physics and use them to their advantage.| Big Think
Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking algorithm to write love letters, long before ChatGPT.| Big Think
Chess was once blamed for triggering insanity, suicide, and even murder. Today, the same is said of video games. We learn little from history.| Big Think
