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Radically improve your work-life speaking and presentation skills with a technique used by musicians and brand-name politicians.
Pleasure, virtue, and doubt are necessary, but each is insufficient on its own.
An extraordinary haberdasher obsessed with buttons, lace collars, and death pioneered modern statistical analysis during the Age of Reason.
In the year 2000, physicists created a list of the ten most important unsolved problems in their field. 25 years later, here's where we are.
Chetan Dube — founder and CEO of Quant — tells Big Think why a pivotal and monumental year for agentic AI has just begun.
"You’ll be able to fly twice as fast as a Boeing or Airbus, and it’ll be like the cost of flying business today."
We see objects whose light only arrives just now. But we see them as they were in the past: when that now-arriving light was first emitted.
Hawking’s refusal to upgrade his communication system preserved a voice that became iconic, not just for its sound, but for the profound identity it conveyed.
Featuring SpaceX's "Mechazilla," a first-of-its-kind spacewalk, and more.
"Okay, dad, but GMOs help feed the world."
A wave of innovation is coursing through the nuclear industry — but ingrained opposition is the biggest roadblock.
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“In our current social and physical climate, there's a sense of fatalism, a fear that bringing someone new into the world might be a bad thing.”
Our Universe isn't just expanding, the expansion is accelerating. Instead of dark energy, could a "lumpy" Universe be at fault?
In 1900, the UK clearly was the richest country in Europe. That's no longer the case.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Despite the Sun's high core temperatures, atomic nuclei repel each other too strongly to fuse together. Good thing for quantum physics!
The biases that shape our understanding of the mind.
Temple Grandin's story reveals how embracing neurodiversity can lead to groundbreaking innovations and more successful teams.
It's simpler, more compact, and reusable from year-to-year in a way that no other calendar is. Here's both how it works and how to use it.
A recent measurement has simultaneously settled an ongoing scientific debate while puzzling scientists.