The Latest from Big Think

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With "Karla's Choice," Nick Harkaway had an impossible mission: maintain his father’s legacy while staying true to his voice.
Book cover of "The Systems Leader" by Robert E. Siegel, featuring overlapping orange geometric shapes and the subtitle exploring systems leadership and cross-pressures in today's companies.
The corporate world is no cake walk — as a leader you need a framework that can equip you for the cross-pressures.
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Launched in March, the PUNCH mission has viewed two incredible coronal mass ejections, tracking them farther from the Sun than ever before.
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Annie Duke, a poker champion turned decision scientist, talks with Big Think about how to choose well under uncertainty.
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Leaders may not realize it — they’re not just being watched, they’re being interpreted, filtered, and judged, frame by frame.
The tiniest galaxies of all are the most severely dominated by dark matter. Could black holes be the cause of the extra gravity instead?
Map of Bhutan showing its borders with China and India, highlighting several disputed regions with labels indicating their names and locations.
As Beijing encroaches on the territory of the Himalayan kingdom, its ultimate aim is leverage over India.
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A few physical quantities, in all laboratory experiments, are always conserved: including energy. But for the entire Universe? Not so much.
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For his new book, “The Ghost Lab,” Matt Hongoltz-Hetling spent time with paranormal investigators to understand their relationship with science and society.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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.
If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can't do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
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If happiness is an absolute good, would 1 billion slightly happy people be better than 1 million incredibly happy people?
A blue planet with visible rings and several small, bright Uranus moons is set against a darkened black background.
Viewing Uranus's largest moons with Hubble, astronomers hoped to find darkening on the trailing side. They found the exact opposite instead.
A worker in protective gear operates machinery in an industrial facility, with a partial overlay of solar panels and geometric patterns above—hinting at the innovative spirit found in stellar societies.
The cofounders of think tank RethinkX are convinced that humanity is undergoing civilizational phase change.
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In "The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs," Riley Black reveals the bold mammals that thrived in the Age of Reptiles.
Book cover titled "Speak, Memorably: The Art of Captivating an Audience" by Bill McGowan and Juliana Silva, featuring a red background and blue and orange text, inspired by the storytelling flair of Francis Coppola.
The “primacy/recency effect” is used by celebrated movie-makers, Broadway composers, and restaurateurs — it can work for you too.
An illustration shows a cosmic ray entering Earth’s atmosphere, creating a cascade of secondary particles—some of the highest energy particles astronomers study—detected by an array of sensors on the ground.
On Earth, our particle accelerators can reach tera-electron-volt (TeV) energies. Particles from space are thousands of times as energetic.
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"We are racing towards a new era in which we outsource cognitive abilities that are central to our identity as thinking beings," writes computer scientist Louis Rosenberg.