The Latest from Big Think

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Brian Gumbel — President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Dataminr — explores the cutting edge of real-time information analysis.
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The universe is filled with unlikely events, but it is also full of ways to fool ourselves.
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Neuroscientist Rachel Barr shares her favorite books on the brain and how they shaped her approach to the field.
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Just because a paper passes peer review doesn't mean that what's written, or what the author asserts, is true. Here's why it still matters.
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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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It's not just an odd quirk of numbers that makes it true, but a deep mathematical insight that dates all the way back to Pythagoras.
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Organic compounds can form through simple chemistry alone — making the search for true biosignatures trickier than it seems.
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10 years ago, LIGO first began directly detecting gravitational waves. Now better than ever, it's revealing previously unreachable features.
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Questions about our origins, biologically, chemically, and cosmically, are the most profound ones we can ask. Here are today's best answers.
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Even when leaders know disruption is a smart ­long-term decision, the pain of transition can produce a titanic shambles. Just ask Kodak.
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Despite the claims of speed reading apps and programs, you actually have to read the book if you want to learn.
Book cover for "Manage Yourself to Lead Others: Why Great Leadership Begins with Self-Understanding" by Margaret C. Andrews, featuring a red background and bold text that echoes the timeless principle: know thyself.
Aristotle taught that “knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom” — all leaders and teams should take note.
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The fear of unleashing forces beyond control has haunted science for centuries.
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Strategyzer CEO Alex Osterwalder on why entrepreneurs should take a leaf from Amazon’s innovation playbook.
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The red planet, Mars, may once have been teeming with life, just as Earth is today. Finding "organics" on Mars, however, doesn't mean life.
A dense star field with dark, irregular dust clouds—where cosmic dust come from—obscures parts of the glowing stars in the Milky Way.
Dust is ubiquitous in the modern Universe, appearing in nearly all galaxies. But our cosmos was born dust-free. So where does it originate?
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In revolutionary Russia, a group of forward-thinking philosophers offered an alternative to both futurism and communism.
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In “On Liberalism," Cass Sunstein argues that liberalism can only endure if we reclaim its core commitments and revive its spirit of freedom and hope for the future.