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How Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky cracked open behavioral economics and enlightened all our choices.
In a world of distractions, several remarkable companies show why focus is the ultimate strategy for endurance.
In the expanding Universe, different ways of measuring its rate give incompatible answers. Nobel Laureate Adam Riess explains what it means.
Oliver Burkeman — author of "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals" — tells Big Think about modern life lessons from a 6th-century monk.
By unlearning old leadership mindsets, cultures, and assumptions we can move from Industrial Age thinking to Intelligence Age thinking.
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Expanding your worldview starts with understanding your brain. Stanford neuroscientist David Eagleman explains.
Unlikely Collaborators
Benjamin Oakes — CEO of buzz-worthy biotech company Scribe Therapeutics — joins Big Think for a chat about innovation, human endeavor, and more.
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From nothing to everything: How zero changed our understanding of the universe, forever.
The Lyman-α emission line has never been seen earlier than 550 million years after the Big Bang. So why does JADES-GS-z13-1-LA have one?
When AI eats its own product, it gets sick.
Galactic activity doesn't just arrive when supermassive black holes feast on matter. Before, during, and after all create fascinating signs.
"No matter how long you’ve been doing a job or how good people say you are, you need to care as if you’ve never done it before."
Desire is like a drug. But is an addict always an addict?
Why would someone who has spent their entire career following orders become a great leader overnight?
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Who decides what’s “normal” and why? As social norms increasingly dissolve, here’s how to find true guidance.
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What would the world be like if we focused on “the inherent beauty of math,” rather than its technical aspects? A statistician reflects:
Although a great many unidentified sights have been seen in the skies, none have conclusively demonstrated the presence of aliens. So far.
Finding life beyond our Solar System requires understanding its host planet.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Taught in every introductory physics class for centuries, the parabola is only an imperfect approximation for the true path of a projectile.