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

It’s one of only five spacecraft that will exit the Solar System, and the only one we have a chance to aim at another star. Of all the spacecraft ever launched, […]
The video fragment only shows increase in COVID-19 cases, reversing the video's original message to induce panic.
Break into the lucrative world of tech with training you can do anywhere.
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Technology best serves the user when organic development combines necessity with collective values.
Don't feel like going out to vote? These ten thinkers have something to tell you.
As the new coronavirus epidemic spreads, more and more people are wearing surgical masks—despite their questionable effectiveness. An anthropologist explores the reasons why.
These are the top advances in technology that will impact the world in the coming decade.
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It's possible to seek equality without seeking sameness.
If all forms of energy experience gravitation, then why does dark energy make the expansion accelerate instead of slow down? Of all the revolutionary discoveries that we’ve made about the Universe, […]
People who score highly on the dark triad are vain, callous, and manipulative.
It's the first time scientists have discovered an animal that doesn't perform aerobic respiration.
Preventable deaths for all five leading mortality causes are "consistently higher" in rural communities.
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The fourth question will tell you the difference between a good and great leader.
Sure, cosmic inflation has its detractors. But it also has something no alternative possesses: predictions and tests. Perhaps the most compelling part of any remarkable story is its origin: how it […]
How reframing your emotions and changing your daily behavior can help you save money.
A new batch of papers reveals some of Mars' subterranean secrets.
Our social emotions are now being hijacked by robots.
A study reveals these brains exhibit less cortical surface area and gray matter.