The Latest from Big Think

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Thinking of a number between one and ten? Here's how predictable human responses create the illusion of telepathy.
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"When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset."
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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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Scientific surprises, driven by experiment, are often how science advances. But more often than not, they’re just bad science.
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As creatures and machines meld together in increasingly advanced forms, ethicists are starting to take note.
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Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia, explains how to find branding success by making "boulders" out of "pebbles."
JWST deep field vs hubble
The "little red dots" were touted as being too massive, too early, for cosmology to explain. With new knowledge, everything adds up.
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Researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory recently created the heaviest exotic antimatter hypernucleus ever observed.
A silhouette of a person using a metal detector merges seamlessly with a large, centered image of JFK's face against a gradient blue background, symbolizing leadership and discovery.
Most leaders get the psychology of human motivation all wrong — here’s how a presidential encounter with a leaf-sweeper puts it right.
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For extraordinary long-term success in business we can look to insights from British Olympic cycling, Roger Federer and neuroeconomics.
Comparison of weight on Earth and Mars for a 1 kg mass. On Earth: gravity = 9.81 m/s², weight = 9.81 N. On Mars: gravity = 3.72 m/s², weight = 3.72 N; demonstrating that weight and mass are not the same across different planets due to varying gravitational forces.
Here on Earth, we commonly use terms like weight (in pounds) and mass (in kilograms) as though they're interchangeable. They're not.
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In "Life As No One Knows It," Sara Imari Walker explains why the key distinction between life and other kinds of "things" is how life uses information.
A man sits at a control panel with knobs and buttons, wearing a headset, looking at a screen displaying abstract, distorted wavy patterns—the antidote for leaders in navigating complex data.
We can address the misalignment between the current leadership reality and traditional leadership practices with a simple formula.
So far, Earth is the only planet that we're certain possesses active life processes. Here's what we shouldn't assume about life elsewhere.
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Dennis “Thresh” Fong talks to us about battling Elon Musk in Quake in the ‘90s, his undefeated record as a pro gamer, and using AI to detoxify gaming.
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Some news is slow, some news is fast — and there are two simple techniques to help you filter both.
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Famed activist Bayard Rustin constantly faced the dilemma of coordinating collective pursuits among diverse groups of people.
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If philosophers really enjoy one thing, it’s a good debate — but not an argument.
cosmic inflation
The Universe isn't just expansion, but the expansion itself is accelerating. So why can't we feel it in any measurable way?