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Helen Fisher: How science can explain heartbreak
Why do we fall in love with one person over another? The late biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher unpacks the evolutionary roots of romantic love, sex, and attachment.  Using research […]
Helen Fisher
A digital illustration showing a glowing blue particle on the left, evoking cosmic inflation, transitioning into a geometric, grid-like structure on a purple background on the right.
Starts With A Bang
Ask Ethan: Does cosmic inflation violate energy conservation?
A few physical quantities, in all laboratory experiments, are always conserved: including energy. But for the entire Universe? Not so much.
Ethan Siegel
A woman, resembling a paranormal investigator, holds a rectangular glass dish above her eyes, which are illuminated by light shining through the dish in a dark setting.
Big Think Books
Why don’t Americans trust experts? Just ask a paranormal investigator.
For his new book, “The Ghost Lab,” Matt Hongoltz-Hetling spent time with paranormal investigators to understand their relationship with science and society.
Ross Pomeroy
Two men in suits stand in front of a graphic collage featuring technical drawings and a building with solar panels, overlaid with the text "The Nightcrawler," evoking innovation that stands the test of stellar age.
Business
The end of extraction and the rise of abundance
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
A heart shape is cut out of paper, revealing a circuit board with computer chips and code underneath.
4mins
The Big Think Interview
The ethical crisis lurking in the background of the AI boom
"If we did create beings that were more like non-human animals, we ought to treat them much better than we now treat non-human animals."
Peter Singer
Timeline of the universe from the Big Bang, as described in cosmology, showing inflation, formation of atoms, stars, galaxies, and expansion to the present day over 13.8 billion years.
Starts With A Bang
How to understand the Universe’s most important equation
If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can't do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
Ethan Siegel
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Mini Philosophy
The “repugnant conclusion” that an Oxford philosopher couldn’t escape
If happiness is an absolute good, would 1 billion slightly happy people be better than 1 million incredibly happy people?
Jonny Thomson
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