How much time do you have left? Time makes sense in small pieces. But when you look at huge stretches of time, it’s almost impossible to wrap your head around things. So we teamed up with the awesome blog “Wait but Why” and made this video to help you putting […]
Time Travel in Science Fiction: A Brief History Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- The idea of time travel, so familiar to us now, was unheard-of before H.G. Wells’s 1895 book The Time Machine. Since then, notions of time […]
D!NG (was never called DO*G, btw): https://www.youtube.com/dingsauce SOURCES & LINKS TO READ MORE BELOW! OED birth year word website: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/12/oed-birthday-words/ Vsauce1 video covering memories and the sensation of time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LyCC6jjcx8 Vsauce1 video that includes Unamuno reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scWj1BMRHUA “Everything Bad is Good For You” book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Everything-Bad-Good-You-Popular-x/dp/0141018682 “Teenage”: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Teenage-The-Creation-Youth-1875-1945/dp/1845951468 George Orwell quote: […]
Everybody feels lonely sometimes. But only few of us are aware how important this feeling was for our ancestors – and that our modern world can turn it into something that really hurts us. Why do we feel this way and what can we do about it? Sources: https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesloneliness/startseite Books […]
