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An artist's impression of a cluster of stars.
Starts With A Bang
Ask Ethan: What are the “first stars” in the Universe?
If the Universe is 13.8 billion years old today, but different ages the farther we look back, what does it mean for a star to be the first?
Ethan Siegel
A man in glasses and a suit jacket, resembling John Green, stands in front of a light background with a purple rectangle and abstract black lines.
Books
‘Everything is Tuberculosis’ author John Green on writing, anxiety, and illness
John Green opens up about his struggle to remain hopeful while writing about suffering and injustice.
Tim Brinkhof
Collage with clocks, footprints in sand, a hand drawing a world map, binary code, and the text "The Nightcrawler" at the top—an evocative piece rethinking civilization and our journey through time.
Business
Rethinking civilization: A new architecture for humanity
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
A monarch butterfly with orange and black wings rests on water, creating a ripple pattern around it.
5mins
The Big Think Interview
The impossibility of control in a butterfly-effected world
“When you think about this interconnection of all these tiny causes and effects which add up to the way the world unfolds, it becomes impossible to imagine that we have complete control.”
Brian Klaas
A split image shows a star field on the left and a COSMOS-Web survey area diagram on the right, with labeled NIRCam and MIRI footprints alongside the moon for scale, highlighting galaxies explored by JWST science.
Starts With A Bang
780,000 galaxies revealed in JWST’s largest science operation
The COSMOS-Web has just finalized their release of their full field: larger and deeper than any other JWST program. Here's what's inside.
Ethan Siegel
Blurred image of people in white robes spinning in a circular motion on a wooden floor, creating a sense of movement and flow.
Mini Philosophy
The dancing monk: Why mature people don’t chase total control
The child has no control at all and the adult tries to control too much. But there is a third way.
Jonny Thomson
An older man with glasses stands next to a diagram of a brain highlighting the “core imprint of trauma” with a red dot and an arrow.
6mins
Perception Box
Trauma makes your world feel small — here’s how to open it up again
Psychiatrist Dr. Bessel van der Kolk discusses key methods for rewiring the brain, kickstarting the healing process, and opening your mind to new perspectives.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Learn from the world’s biggest thinkers.
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