Top Hackernews posts from bigthink.com

  1. Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research (bigthink.com)
    510 points by mmq almost 2 years ago | 458 comments
  2. “Healthy obesity” doesn’t exist. It is unequivocally bad for you (bigthink.com)
    374 points by Brajeshwar over 1 year ago | 384 comments
  3. Please, don't build another Large Hadron Collider (bigthink.com)
    362 points by khaled_ismaeel over 2 years ago | 457 comments
  4. What happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans? (bigthink.com)
    330 points by fbn79 over 1 year ago | 574 comments
  5. The 'attention economy' corrupts science (bigthink.com)
    323 points by respinal almost 2 years ago | 167 comments
  6. Speech is violence? Not if we want a liberal, intellectual society (bigthink.com)
    302 points by andsoitis over 1 year ago | 449 comments
  7. Intelligent people take longer to solve hard problems: study (bigthink.com)
    297 points by Brajeshwar about 1 year ago | 176 comments
  8. Listening to songs can cause a physiological response known as “frisson” (bigthink.com)
    288 points by mhb over 2 years ago | 150 comments
  9. Maps show how parking lots “eat” U.S. cities (bigthink.com)
    270 points by Amorymeltzer over 1 year ago | 333 comments
  10. Kurt Vonnegut on the “shapes” of stories (bigthink.com)
    246 points by aleyan about 2 years ago | 77 comments
  11. Pulsars, not dark matter, explain the Milky Way’s antimatter (bigthink.com)
    241 points by PaulHoule 12 months ago | 128 comments
  12. Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste from a million years to 30 minutes (bigthink.com)
    235 points by metaph6 over 2 years ago | 134 comments
  13. Rapamycin: The unlucky history of an anti-aging drug (bigthink.com)
    203 points by theNewMicrosoft over 1 year ago | 175 comments
  14. Easter eggs on Swiss maps (2021) (bigthink.com)
    199 points by Brajeshwar 7 months ago | 45 comments
  15. Warp drive's best hope dies, as antimatter falls down (bigthink.com)
    194 points by WithinReason 12 months ago | 233 comments
  16. The value of owning more books than you can read (2018) (bigthink.com)
    194 points by PikelEmi about 2 years ago | 157 comments
  17. CERN researchers have observed and generated high-energy neutrino radiation (bigthink.com)
    186 points by Brajeshwar over 1 year ago | 50 comments
  18. A theory that Mars lost its magnetic field and then its oceans (2022) (bigthink.com)
    178 points by mannykannot 11 months ago | 176 comments
  19. No, we didn’t accidentally create a warp bubble (bigthink.com)
    171 points by russfink almost 3 years ago | 101 comments
  20. Pessimism is a barrier to progress (bigthink.com)
    171 points by kiyanwang almost 2 years ago | 181 comments
  21. Scientists finally figure out why the water bear is nearly indestructible (2017) (bigthink.com)
    147 points by AiaAidan over 1 year ago | 92 comments
  22. Roger Penrose claims our Universe has been through multiple Big Bangs (bigthink.com)
    143 points by indigodaddy over 1 year ago | 237 comments
  23. The "Reitoff principle": Why you should add "nothing" to your work-life schedule (bigthink.com)
    129 points by PaulHoule 6 months ago | 67 comments
  24. Does light have an infinite lifetime? (bigthink.com)
    126 points by robertn702 5 months ago | 102 comments
  25. Is dark matter’s “nightmare scenario” true? (bigthink.com)
    123 points by spekcular almost 2 years ago | 177 comments
  26. Talking with your hands alters the perception of your words (bigthink.com)
    121 points by Hooke over 3 years ago | 62 comments
  27. Despite social pressure, boys and girls still prefer gender-typical toys (bigthink.com)
    118 points by yamrzou over 3 years ago | 91 comments
  28. The Great Oxygenation Event (bigthink.com)
    115 points by Brajeshwar 6 months ago | 50 comments
  29. New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension (bigthink.com)
    108 points by ColinWright about 1 year ago | 60 comments
  30. “The Onion” founder explains his strategy for sparking creativity (bigthink.com)
    107 points by Brajeshwar about 1 year ago | 43 comments
  31. Derinkuyu: Mysterious underground city in Turkey found in man's basement (bigthink.com)
    106 points by Brajeshwar 9 months ago | 24 comments
  32. Derinkuyu: Mysterious underground city in Turkey found in man’s basement (bigthink.com)
    105 points by Cieplak about 2 years ago | 16 comments
  33. Why modifying gravity doesn’t add up (bigthink.com)
    96 points by raattgift almost 2 years ago | 132 comments
  34. A mathematically correct way to tie your shoes (bigthink.com)
    95 points by redbell about 1 year ago | 43 comments
  35. Eastern philosophy says there is no “self” – science agrees (bigthink.com)
    94 points by Brajeshwar over 1 year ago | 96 comments
  36. Study: U.S. dietary recommendations for protein intake are too low (bigthink.com)
    93 points by PaulHoule about 1 year ago | 161 comments
  37. The missing apex of Maslow's hierarchy: self-transcendence (bigthink.com)
    87 points by arizen 8 months ago | 109 comments
  38. Crows are self-aware just like us, says new study (2020) (bigthink.com)
    84 points by gls2ro almost 3 years ago | 27 comments
  39. 94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach (bigthink.com)
    76 points by ScottMann almost 3 years ago | 91 comments
  40. The "Eisenhower matrix" productivity hack (bigthink.com)
    74 points by 8bitsrule 6 months ago | 51 comments
  41. “Devil’s horsemen”: Why Mongol horse archers were history’s most feared (bigthink.com)
    72 points by warrenm about 1 year ago | 84 comments
  42. What being rich in China looked like in 1, 1000, and 2000 AD (bigthink.com)
    70 points by PaulHoule 11 months ago | 65 comments
  43. In 1903, NY Times predicted airplanes would take 10M years to develop (bigthink.com)
    70 points by sandebert 10 months ago | 77 comments
  44. In case you missed it: America got much bigger continental shelf (bigthink.com)
    67 points by TaurenHunter 8 months ago | 32 comments
  45. Physicists now question the fate of the Universe (bigthink.com)
    65 points by belter 4 months ago | 76 comments
  46. Our Universe wasn’t empty, even before the Big Bang (bigthink.com)
    64 points by Brajeshwar about 1 year ago | 40 comments
  47. We have more to fear from stupid people than evil ones (bigthink.com)
    58 points by axiologist 10 months ago | 60 comments
  48. Is there a fifth fundamental force of nature? (bigthink.com)
    57 points by Brajeshwar about 1 year ago | 47 comments
  49. The deadly “dancing plague” of 1518 (bigthink.com)
    53 points by Brajeshwar about 1 year ago | 67 comments
  50. The school that grants your PhD thinks it’s too good to hire you (bigthink.com)
    52 points by Mistletoe almost 2 years ago | 73 comments
  51. Top vets urge dog lovers to stop buying pugs and bulldogs (bigthink.com)
    52 points by cainxinth 10 months ago | 4 comments
  52. Are the “missing baryons” simply too hot to see? (bigthink.com)
    51 points by raattgift about 1 year ago | 30 comments
  53. Want fewer car accidents? Remove traffic signals and road signs (2017) (bigthink.com)
    51 points by mpweiher about 1 year ago | 86 comments
  54. Chronic inflammation may be a "disease of affluence" (bigthink.com)
    51 points by PaulHoule 8 months ago | 49 comments
  55. The Paratethys Sea was the largest lake in Earth’s history (bigthink.com)
    50 points by Petiver over 1 year ago | 35 comments