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

While there's plenty to be worried about, it's important to remember that we're making progress, too.
Is it saying too much to say something doesn't exist when you have no evidence either way?
 Building Big Think from little more than an idea to 30 million monthly visitors, co-founder Victoria Rachel Montgomery-Brown knows something about being an entrepreneur. Her idea, together with co-founder Peter […]
The Canadian professor's old-school message is why many started listening to him.
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A climate catastrophe 2 billion years ago almost ended life on Earth. Here’s the biggest lesson of all. Although it was more than 4½ billion years ago that planet Earth formed, […]
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Tax megacorps like Amazon to fund universal basic income, says 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang.
The navigation tool has placed a school in the sea, among other things.
A new computer model solves a pair of Jovian riddles.
Artists and fans are the big losers as bot-powered scalpers make a killing.
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The 21st century is experiencing an Asianization of politics, business, and culture.
If you’re careful enough, you can learn more about the Solar System than you ever imagined. This year, on March 20th, the full Moon will illuminate the night sky. With […]
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Can sensitive coral reefs survive another human generation?
A new study from the University of Pittsburgh details how the anti-vaxx movement has divided and grown.
So, you want to know about black holes, including how we’re seeing them, what happens when you fall into them, what our future plans for direct and indirect detection are, […]
Even if we don’t destroy ourselves, we always have the Universe to contend with. Wiping out all life on Earth is hard, but causing mass extinctions is easy. The 1991 eruption […]
Melting ice is turning up bodies on Mt. Everest. This isn't as shocking as you'd think.
We take fewer mental pictures per second.
The Human Diagnosis Project project is building the world's "open medical intelligence" system.