The Latest from Big Think

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A starry night sky over a snow-capped mountain, known as one of Earth's best astronomy locations, with bright city lights shimmering in the distance on the horizon.
There are a number of factors to consider when choosing where to build a telescope. These 3 locations, on their merits, surpass all others.
A human hand reaches toward a robotic hand, which includes a speech bubble with mathematical code. A pixelated pink background completes the scene.
Man seeking meaningful relationship at the intersection of on-demand empathy and Rule 34.
A child in a yellow hoodie and blue boots holds a parent's hand, engaging in play as they walk on a log in a wooded area. The parent, clad in jeans and matching blue boots, guides the little adventurer through nature's playground.
Plenty of parents feel guilty about wanting to skip playtime, but there's no need.
Electric vehicle in blue being charged with a white charging cable against a blue background.
The US needs 28 million EV chargers by 2030. Here’s how it can get there.
A composite image featuring a classical Greco-Roman statue embodying stoicism on the left and a Buddha statue symbolizing Buddhism on the right, overlaid with beige, red, and gray geometric patterns.
People often say, "Let go," or, "Don't take things to heart." But where's the line with this philosophy?
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The Universe changes remarkably over time, with some entities surviving and others simply decaying away. Is this cosmic evolution at work?
Silhouettes of three people in red stand on a podium made of white cubes, evoking the spirit of ranked choice voting, with blue circles against a dark grid background.
The electoral reform also known as instant-runoff voting promises bridge-building and broad appeal instead of culture war and gridlock.
A globe is encircled by golden barbed wire against a gray background, evocative of autocracy and symbolizing restriction or confinement with a sense of luxury.
Modern autocracies operate "not like a bloc but rather like an agglomeration of companies," says journalist and historian Anne Applebaum.
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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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Black holes encode information on their surfaces, but evaporate away into Hawking radiation. Is that information preserved, and if so, how?
An older man with glasses writes on paper, superimposed on a graph with a wavy purple line on a black grid background, evoking the Hemingway effect.
To maintain momentum and flow, the great novelist Ernest Hemingway didn’t burn himself out — but learned when to put his work down.
Map of the Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order, showing key locations such as the World Headquarters and Library, with details on independence, language, religion, government, and currency.
The Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order would be just one quarter the size of Vatican City.
A glowing, abstract representation of a brain, with intricate patterns and lights reminiscent of the innovative spirit behind the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024, set against a dark backdrop.
Artificial intelligence is much more than image generation and smart-sounding chatbots; it's also a Nobel-worthy endeavor rooted in physics!
Illustration of Mars with overlaid data graphs and lines, offering analytical representations that unravel the mysteries of dark matter.
Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter.
A grayscale photo of a man is on the left page of an open book, while the right page features an illustration of a white dove with red accents on a yellow background, symbolizing freedom.
Historian Timothy Snyder talks with Big Think about how true liberty requires both negative and positive freedoms.
An open book shows a portrait of a smiling woman on the right page and four blue arrows pointing outward on the left, leading your eyes to something bigger beyond its pages.
Anne Chow, former CEO of AT&T Business, lays out a new approach to inclusive leadership that takes “thinking bigger” to the next level.
A side profile of an older man with a white beard, wearing a light blue shirt, against a dark background, illuminated by soft lighting from the left, exudes an aura of radical optimism.
The co-founder of Wired magazine shares his insights on how a long-term mindset can shape a brighter, more innovative future.
Book cover titled "Infinite Cosmos" with a vibrant galaxy and stars. Includes "National Geographic" logo and the text "Visions from the James Webb Space Telescope." Introduction by Brian Greene.
National Geographic's first James Webb Space Telescope book shows us the cosmos like never before.
A young woman in a white dress sits in front of a digital representation of Cupid with pink and green pixels. The background features a landscape with trees.
The first of these devices is already on the market — the AI-powered Ray-Bans from Meta.
A starry sky with a magnified view highlights an orange, cloud-like structure representing one of the youngest astronomical objects in the Milky Way, shimmering as it subtly rotates.
The earliest Milky Way-like galaxy, REBELS-25, was spotted rotating about its axis. It's only 700 million years old: 5% of our present age.