Technology

Finding God at the Brooklyn Museum

The Ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead” turned me into a believer. We talked to the curators and conservators to learn how it came to be.

Feb 27, 2026

IDSVA Extends PhD Program to BA and BFA Applicants

Earn your PhD in Art Theory, Aesthetics, and Philosophy with the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA).

Feb 27, 2026

The Uncertain Future of Colombia’s Museum of Memory

Originally envisioned as a center for collective memory and mourning amid the country’s 70-year armed conflict, the building still sits empty in the middle of Bogotá.

Feb 27, 2026

The Case for Boycotting the 2026 Venice Biennale

A boycott targets the infrastructure of complicity — in this instance, the social and cultural normalization of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Feb 27, 2026

The Jazz Pictures the FBI Silenced

Fearing for her safety, Lisette Model buried her photos of artists like Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, but a new book reveals them to the world.

Feb 27, 2026

Frieze LA Meets the Real World

Intentionally or not, this year’s edition brought issues of class, labor, and immigration into the fair tent.

Feb 28, 2026

How Einstein revolutionized the meaning of “where” and “when”

Here on Earth, it seems easy and straightforward to know “where” anything is, or to know “when” an event either occurred or will occur. After all, we’ve mapped out the en...

Feb 25, 2026

How to conquer pressure — the Jim Belushi way

Sometimes, when Jim Belushi feels anxious, he tells himself he’s actually just stoked. “Physiologically,” the actor, comedian, and entrepreneur tells Big Think, “what happens to your body when you’re ...

Feb 25, 2026

Thumbs-down to “Gladiator Strategy”? Try the Nadella philosophy instead

It’s called the Gladiator Strategy.  The Swiss CEO of a shoe company stirred his espresso as he tried to convince me of his preferred way of working: “I think a battle of ideas is so important. I...

Feb 25, 2026

Widening the frame: Indigenous land rights and the future of climate policy

A woman stands at the edge of the Amazon Rainforest. Behind her, an explosion of life — thousands of animal species, billions of trees, lush canopy. Ahead, another kind: Humanity.  People from ev...

Feb 25, 2026

The 3 colors: What folktales teach about how to grow wise

European folktales often center around three colors: red, black, and white. Snow White has skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony. In the Grimms’ “Iron Hans,” a ...

Feb 25, 2026

Record-breaking natural laser discovered 11 billion light-years away

Here on Earth, the very idea of a laser is relatively novel, having only been invented in 1958. The underlying physics is straightforward: an electron within a molecule gets excited to a higher-energy...

Feb 26, 2026

Inside Wall Street’s 2008 meltdown, through the eyes of an FBI informant

[In the] summer of 2008, Sue and I kept up the charade of normal life by hunting for a house. We told ourselves it was optimism. In reality, it was desperation disguised as hope; some fragile belief t...

Feb 26, 2026

The hidden cost of letting AI make your life easier

Sven Nyholm already sees troubling signs among his students. As a Professor of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, he’s noticed that many can’t be bothered to ...

Feb 26, 2026

How experimental archaeologists are resurrecting our forgotten past

We tend to imagine ancient life in broad strokes. But daily existence was built out of small, sensory details. The taste of staple foods, the smell of living spaces, the feel of handmade tools in your...

Feb 27, 2026

Ask Ethan: Can quantum entanglement survive a black hole?

Here in our Universe, there’s a big puzzle at the heart of every black hole. According to Einstein’s general relativity, for every black hole that exists within the Universe, there are onl...

Feb 27, 2026

'Revolutionary': Vera C. Rubin Observatory found 800,000 objects of interest in a single night

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory sent scientists nearly 1 million astronomy alerts in one night, showing off changes in the sky. Eventually, the telescope is expected to reach 7 million alerts per night.

Feb 26, 2026