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

A new review article makes the case that you can always use it.
Chemo is our best response to cancer so far. A novel new therapy could render it obsolete.
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Getting to close to a black hole is a nightmare waiting to happen.
We’d never flown past or imaged a small, isolated Kuiper belt object before. Here’s what we know so far. As 2018 ended and 2019 began, NASA’s New Horizons flew past its […]
When he first became a multi-millionaire, Elon Musk shared how his vision led to success.
A growing middle-class is set to drive the sharing economy in the near future.
Feel like traveling to another dimension? Better choose your black hole wisely.
Everyone is a work in progress — even these household names.
This means the disease may be curable and a vaccine possible.
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Hollywood's notions of future wars may be nothing like the real ones.
Philosophers and practical ethicists might gain something from considering the Overton window of political possibilities.
Protestantism is good for some people and bad for others. At least that is the conclusion if we are to judge by the stark matters of life, or death, and […]
Classicist Edith Hall reminds us that Aristotle's "virtue ethics" was a sophisticated, subtle approach to the pursuit of lifelong happiness a couple millennia before Oprah thought of inviting us to live our best life.
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Dear millennials. Ask for a raise. Every single year.
"It is unthinkable in this day and time that the law requires a sex-change operation to change gender."
Some things have always been worth celebrating.
Can changing diet actually reverse the growth of cancer in the body?