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

A black hole punched a hole 15 Milky Ways across in a galaxy cluster’s gas, by far the largest ‘kaboom’ ever seen. The Universe, everywhere we look, is full of cataclysmic […]
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Striking a better work-life balance comes down to the numbers.
Can the American government stop coronavirus spread? Its past actions speak volumes.
Ever smell a durian fruit? Don't. Think of it as nature's stinky battery.
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Beware of the "fallacy of excessive expertise."
Not everything needs a medium to travel through. If we can overcome that assumption, we don’t need the aether at all. All throughout the Universe, different types of signals propagate. Some […]
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The Black Death skipped certain parts of Europe – and that could be a lesson for today's coronavirus epidemic
A computer coder and a lawyer decide they have a right to speak for all the songwriters that ever lived, those who are alive today, and all those yet to be born.
The oldest known cave-dwelling arthropods have been discovered preserved in amber.
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Childhood is an important developmental feature of being human. Helicopter parenting disrupts that.
There are scientifically proven ways you can improve your self-esteem, right now.
It’s not a lack of motivation, intelligence, or capability. Here’s how to open a space. Over the past 20 years, the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded in physics has more than […]
These people had no access to magazines and, generally, no access to the internet.