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It can be overwhelming to navigate the pains of life, but the iconic self-help author believes you can find yourself by answering just four questions
Unlikely Collaborators
There's no upper limit to how massive galaxies or black holes can be, but the most massive known star is only ~260 solar masses. Here's why.
A person in a suit embodies the Five Ps—poise, precision, performance, presentation, and passion—as they play a trumpet and hold a cloth against a plain background.
Radically improve your work-life speaking and presentation skills with a technique used by musicians and brand-name politicians.
The cover of "Beyond Stoicism" by Pigliucci, Lopez, and Kunz masterfully blends historical philosopher portraits into a circular design, reflecting the depth and timeless relevance of stoicism.
Pleasure, virtue, and doubt are necessary, but each is insufficient on its own.
Three historical documents: Two titled "Reflections on the Weekly Bill of Mortality" surround an illustration of a plague doctor in a bird-like mask holding a staff, with a cityscape in the background. The scene captures the dark brilliance of an era grappling with mortality.
An extraordinary haberdasher obsessed with buttons, lace collars, and death pioneered modern statistical analysis during the Age of Reason.
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In the year 2000, physicists created a list of the ten most important unsolved problems in their field. 25 years later, here's where we are.
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Chetan Dube — founder and CEO of Quant — tells Big Think why a pivotal and monumental year for agentic AI has just begun.