The Latest from Big Think

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By supplementing the "principle of marginal gains” with these practical steps, you’ll be well equipped for the journey towards excellence.
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Each December, the Geminid meteor shower puts on a show for skywatchers across Earth. With a new Moon at 2023's peak, it'll be outstanding!
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Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.
A piece of wood with words written on it, discovered near Vesuvius.
The volcano’s historic eruption preserved an ancient library, but rendered its content illegible. A public competition aims to change that.
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It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.
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The essential element needed for innovation is creative dissonance — and the keys to unlocking it were forged by bankers in Italy.
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The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don't physically exist. Is he right?
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Some neuroscientists question whether the body can “keep score” of anything in a meaningful way.
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These nematodes complicate how we understand evolutionary lineages.
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A company can only be as agile as its least flexible team — here’s how to make an effective framework for decision-making.
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Nearly half of all stars are born in binary systems, with the most massive ones dying the fastest. It's not pretty for the "second" star.
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Freethink's weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring Starship's second test flight, a new "dark mysteries" telescope, and more.
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Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.
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There is currently no easy way to treat high Lp(a). A single shot could change that.
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You can learn an awful lot about people, culture, and politics by studying R.
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The Big Bang theory is not threatened, but astrophysicists have some explaining to do.
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There are steps we can take to create a new paradigm that will help shift society's attitude towards women in the workplace.
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Lockdowns moved the burden of COVID from the at-risk elderly to the less-at-risk young. Does this sacrifice merit compensation?
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The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.