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The newest essays, interviews, and features from Big Think.

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SEAL training is the ultimate test of both mental and physical strength.
Is focusing solely on body mass index the best way for doctor to frame obesity?
Pandemic-inspired housing innovation will collide with techno-acceleration.
Our family tree is complicated, and some of the branches are still unlabeled.
Some of the most extreme weather in the Solar System just got stranger.
Two famous Italian design companies joined forces to create this masterpiece.
Preliminary studies on mice show positive results.
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and best-selling author Charles Duhigg as he interviews Victoria Montgomery Brown, co-founder and CEO of Big Think.
In a recent study, researchers examined how Christian nationalism is affecting the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Parental anxieties stem from the complex relationship between technology, child development, and the internet's trove of unseemly content.
Some of them may have formed just 200 million years after the Big Bang. When we look out at the Universe, we’re not seeing objects as they are today, but rather […]
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Reaching beyond the stereotypes of meditation and embracing the science of mindfulness.
Emotional intelligence is a skill sought by many employers. Here's how to raise yours.
Just what every arachnophobe needed to hear.
A study looks at the performance benefits delivered by asthma drugs when they're taken by athletes who don't have asthma.
Certain water beetles can escape from frogs after being consumed.
Research is for the experts. Listen to them instead. “Research both sides and make up your own mind.” It’s simple, straightforward, common sense advice. And when it comes to issues like […]
Several experts have weighed in on our sometimes morbid curiosity and fascination with true crime.