The Latest from Big Think

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Whether it’s LeBron's shooting patterns or your corporate AI strategy, actionable insights are the key to turning data into meaningful results.
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Tennis pro Mardy Fish and Spanx founder Sara Blakely both turned failure into their greatest asset.
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Webflow CEO Linda Tong tells Big Think how her lifelong love of sports has guided her ascent to the C-Suite.
Rebuilding the NFL franchise in the early 2020s echoed the corporate overhauls that had transformed Boeing and Ford.
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The story of how the world high jump record was smashed in 1968 contains golden lessons for business and innovation.
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How choosing Stoic acceptance — not dour resignation — galvanized great leaders from Thomas Edison to Phil Jackson and Tony Hawk.
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Seeking life beyond the Solar System, we first look to the closest star systems with Earth-like planets. Here's why that's not good enough.
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Sahil Bloom explores why wealth isn’t just about money, but about knowing which type of wealth matters most in each season of life.
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Our Moon is full of craters, basins, and ancient lava flows. But two large lunar Grand Canyons have the same origin: a single, giant impact.
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Major League Baseball and Ivy League research confirm that tackling well-being is hard work — but well worth the effort.
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Life may have arisen far earlier — and more rapidly — than previously thought.
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Upskilling all managers and leaders is imperative if we are to solve the global challenge of poor management.
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There are only four super star clusters in all the Local Group: rarities today. Here's what the youngest, the just-discovered N79, shows us.
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If humanity lives in an otherwise barren Universe, we'll have to forge philosophy that fills the void.
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Here in our Universe, both normal and dark matter can be measured astrophysically. But only normal matter can collapse. Why is that?
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"It’s only natural for us to get America back," quipped Kim Kielsen, former prime minister of Greenland, in 2019.
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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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With a flurry of threats to scientists, science funding, and health policy, the USA now faces a crisis reminiscent of Soviet-era Lysenkoism.
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Restaurateur Will Guidara explains why it’s not just what you do, but how you make people feel that leads to successful ventures.