The Latest from Big Think

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Tim O'Reilly, an older man with short gray hair wearing a light blue button-up shirt, stands outdoors with arms crossed, surrounded by green trees.
Media trailblazer Tim O’Reilly tells Big Think why AI requires "get yourself dirty" work — and warns us not to buy the hype.
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We have a picture of how and when it will all come to an end. These three big ideas could still profoundly change how our cosmos evolves.
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Conversations about an imminent "AI bubble" tend to miss the big picture.
Book cover titled "Culture Design: How to Build a High-Performing, Resilient Organization with Purpose" by James D. White and Krista White. Abstract yellow and blue shapes below inspire ways to fortify culture.
Not every company holds an annual food skirmish like OGC — but designing rituals with intentionality can strengthen your corporate soul.
Illustration depicting cosmic evolution from the Big Bang, through inflation and CMB, to the large-scale cosmic web. As time advances from 0 to 13.8 billion years, SPHEREx's mapping of galaxies teaches what CMB can't about our universe's development.
Science has assembled an incredible story outlining our Universe's whole history. Despite its unrivaled success, 9 profound gaps remain.
Two side-by-side images of the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula showcase different views with vibrant colors and star-filled backgrounds, embodying the great paradox of beauty within science.
There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?
Silhouettes of two people seated and facing each other with a large smartphone between them, displaying multiple thumbs-up icons amid a swirl of digital psychobabble.
Joe Nucci, author of "Psychobabble," joins us to discuss how the misuse of psychological language risks blurring the lines between everyday problems and clinical diagnoses.
Book cover of "Strange Stability" by Benjamin Wilson, featuring a green pen vertically centered on a beige background with red and green text—reflecting themes of nuclear deterrence.
In this excerpt from "Strange Stability," Benjamin Wilson explores how the concept of "deterrence" went from explaining criminal behavior to becoming a nuclear strategy.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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What a 1950s experiment reveals about conformity in the age of the internet.
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Although American Thanksgiving only comes once a year, the scientific rules that make our Universe possible are always worth appreciating.
A woman with long red hair, wearing a puffer jacket, stands outdoors with passion in her gaze—holding binoculars and looking up as a camera hangs from her neck.
Be weird and esoteric because humans are weird and esoteric.
Two people discuss information on a digital tablet, with abstract yellow and white geometric patterns overlaid as they consider the implications of AI reckoning.
AI has brought a reckoning to the consulting industry — and the death knell will quickly sound for those who fail to adapt.
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The far side of the Moon is incredibly different from the Earth-facing side. 66 years later, we know why the Moon's faces are not alike.
Split image: Left side shows a military aircraft releasing a missile mid-air; right side displays a US dollar bill and Iranian currency partially overlapping.
From bombed reactors to inflation and blackouts, a cascade of crises is testing the Islamic Republic’s resilience like never before.
Book cover of "The Great Math War" featuring three black-and-white portraits—one of Georg Cantor—and handwritten math notes, with subtitle about three mathematicians fighting for math’s foundations.
In this excerpt from "The Great Math War," Jason Socrates Bardi explores how Georg Cantor revolutionized mathematics and reshaped how our finite minds conceived of the infinite.
Three men in business attire and jackets stand before a collage background, featuring downward-trending graph lines on green paper, each displaying a CEO superpower as they navigate challenging markets.
From Charles Schwab to Jensen Huang, great leaders never attribute their success to flawless planning — they point instead to what went wrong.
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Such massive, early supermassive black holes have puzzled astronomers for decades. At last, we've finally figured out how they form.
A split image shows a person typing on a laptop on the left and gridlocked cars on the right, set against connected nodes and letters—a visual nod to Jack Nilles, pioneer of telecommuting.
Decades before COVID imposed remote work on the world, Jack Nilles pioneered WFH and championed its many benefits.
A telescope beneath a colorful, abstract visualization of the universe, with a starry night sky in the background.
Every observation out into deep space is also a look back in time.