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A woman in a blue outfit and red heels sits on a chair in a studio with a white backdrop, flanked by stylized images of a person's face looking at a phone.
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"Social media is the perfect recipe for kids to become addicted to their smartphones."
Two monkeys sit on a tree branch interacting, with brain diagrams and EEG waveforms in the background, one with a purple arrow pointing to its head.
By tracking brain activity as primates move freely in the wild, neuroethology could reshape what we think we know about our own minds.
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The Department of Energy's newest mission seeks to make a unified AI platform across all national labs. Will it help US science, or kill it?
A person in a red sweater sits on a stool in front of a white backdrop in a bright room with plants, a colorful rug, and a table with a lamp.
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“The problem with cognitive scripts is when we use them to make more important decisions in our lives, we let our choices be driven by those stories that we have internalized that tell us how we're supposed to behave in a certain situation.”
A crowd of people wearing sunglasses looks upward; Brendan Foody is featured on the left side of the image, where a rising line graph appears on a dark background.
AI “eval” outfit Mercor is one of the fastest growing companies in history. But will their rocket run out of fuel? Big Think investigates.
A man stands on stage before an audience, with a backdrop reading "A Night of Awe & Wonder" and the John Templeton Foundation logo.
Big Think and the John Templeton Foundation gathered scientists, artists, and storytellers in Los Angeles to explore the power of awe.