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Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market(bigthink.com)

143 points by RickJWagner 24 days ago | 40 comments

Big Think article by Robin Wigglesworth on how a failed 12th-century Venetian crusade against Constantinople led Venice to create the world's first bond market.

Depression has tripled in the last 15 years. Arthur Brooks about the cause(bigthink.com)

26 points by lschueller 2 months ago | 31 comments

Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine?(bigthink.com)

42 points by LouisLazaris 3 months ago | 37 comments

The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood(bigthink.com)

165 points by sylvainkalache 6 months ago | 170 comments

Militarized snowflakes: The accidental beauty of Renaissance star forts(bigthink.com)

31 points by Brajeshwar 7 months ago | 5 comments

The eight ways that all the elements in the Universe are made (2021)(bigthink.com)

54 points by zdw 9 months ago | 31 comments

What brain surgery taught me about the fragile gift of consciousness(bigthink.com)

177 points by NaOH 1 year ago | 101 comments

American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history(bigthink.com)

80 points by yowzadave 1 year ago | 64 comments

Why don't Americans trust experts? Just ask a paranormal investigator(bigthink.com)

6 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 0 comments

The longest train journey is epic – but nobody's ever taken it(bigthink.com)

82 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 29 comments

One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm(bigthink.com)

242 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 150 comments

Urine Led to the Foundation of Chemistry(bigthink.com)

9 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 2 comments

Coincidences that make our existence possible(bigthink.com)

14 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 2 comments

Cheap light transformed civilization(bigthink.com)

80 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 48 comments

The science of "Zoom fatigue"(bigthink.com)

71 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 111 comments

Time is a dimension, but not like space(bigthink.com)

160 points by belter 2 years ago | 167 comments

Why Navajo is one of the most difficult languages (2023)(bigthink.com)

63 points by ohjeez 2 years ago | 55 comments

The love letter generator created by Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey(bigthink.com)

62 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 6 comments

How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters?(bigthink.com)

117 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 185 comments

A connection between the northern lights and Hubble's death(bigthink.com)

43 points by amichail 2 years ago | 8 comments

Why physicists now question the fate of the Universe(bigthink.com)

47 points by belter 2 years ago | 33 comments

The "Eisenhower matrix" productivity hack(bigthink.com)

58 points by 8bitsrule 2 years ago | 40 comments

The Great Oxygenation Event(bigthink.com)

59 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 20 comments

The "Reitoff principle": Why you should add "nothing" to your work-life schedule(bigthink.com)

62 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 43 comments

Easter eggs on Swiss maps (2021)(bigthink.com)

173 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 39 comments

The missing apex of Maslow's hierarchy: self-transcendence(bigthink.com)

73 points by arizen 2 years ago | 69 comments

In case you missed it: America got much bigger continental shelf(bigthink.com)

54 points by TaurenHunter 2 years ago | 24 comments

Are electric vehicles cheaper to own? Maybe not(bigthink.com)

6 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 0 comments

What Explains the Fibonacci Sequence?(bigthink.com)

8 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 0 comments

Brain "wakes up" more than 100 times each night – that's normal(bigthink.com)

6 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 8 comments

Derinkuyu: Mysterious underground city in Turkey found in man's basement(bigthink.com)

67 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 14 comments

Seven great but notoriously hard-to-finish books(bigthink.com)

15 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 29 comments

A larger family worsens kids' cognitive development, suggests 30-year study(bigthink.com)

22 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 27 comments

JWST Images of 2023(bigthink.com)

21 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 4 comments

In 1903, NY Times predicted airplanes would take 10M years to develop(bigthink.com)

25 points by sandebert 2 years ago | 19 comments

A theory that Mars lost its magnetic field and then its oceans (2022)(bigthink.com)

170 points by mannykannot 3 years ago | 148 comments

What being rich in China looked like in 1, 1000, and 2000 AD(bigthink.com)

55 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 40 comments

42 is the answer to these 5 fundamental questions(bigthink.com)

11 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 0 comments

Why Apollo 11 astronauts signed tons of autographs – then stowed them away(bigthink.com)

24 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 15 comments

Warp drive's best hope dies, as antimatter falls down(bigthink.com)

160 points by WithinReason 3 years ago | 181 comments

Pulsars, not dark matter, explain the Milky Way’s antimatter(bigthink.com)

222 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 113 comments

Study: U.S. dietary recommendations for protein intake are too low(bigthink.com)

74 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 84 comments

Is there a fifth fundamental force of nature?(bigthink.com)

38 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 31 comments

New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension(bigthink.com)

80 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 44 comments

“The Onion” founder explains his strategy for sparking creativity(bigthink.com)

72 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 29 comments

Are the “missing baryons” simply too hot to see?(bigthink.com)

39 points by raattgift 3 years ago | 21 comments

Our Universe wasn’t empty, even before the Big Bang(bigthink.com)

36 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 26 comments

“Devil’s horsemen”: Why Mongol horse archers were history’s most feared(bigthink.com)

63 points by warrenm 3 years ago | 48 comments

Want fewer car accidents? Remove traffic signals and road signs (2017)(bigthink.com)

45 points by mpweiher 3 years ago | 45 comments

Kunga: Ancient Mesopotamians created the world’s first hybrid animal(bigthink.com)

33 points by diodorus 3 years ago | 7 comments

The deadly “dancing plague” of 1518(bigthink.com)

47 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 57 comments

A mathematically correct way to tie your shoes(bigthink.com)

62 points by redbell 3 years ago | 31 comments

Intelligent people take longer to solve hard problems: study(bigthink.com)

220 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 158 comments

Eastern philosophy says there is no “self” – science agrees(bigthink.com)

41 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 38 comments

Rapamycin: The unlucky history of an anti-aging drug(bigthink.com)

171 points by theNewMicrosoft 3 years ago | 157 comments

The Paratethys Sea was the largest lake in Earth’s history(bigthink.com)

44 points by Petiver 3 years ago | 20 comments

Roger Penrose claims our Universe has been through multiple Big Bangs(bigthink.com)

118 points by indigodaddy 3 years ago | 171 comments

Maps show how parking lots “eat” U.S. cities(bigthink.com)

127 points by Amorymeltzer 3 years ago | 112 comments