The Latest from Big Think

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Workplace community is too often dismissed as an HR initiative, when in reality it’s the key to driving business results through frontline employee performance.
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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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Free speech may be messy, but censorship is deadly. Founder of The Future of Free Speech Jacob Mchangama explains.
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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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“We can have that fight for a 1,000 years, but we could have a shot at figuring out what we both need and noticing when there's opportunities to make that happen.”
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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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“The sexual excitation system is the accelerator or the gas pedal, and it notices all the sex-related information in the environment.”
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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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A physician, a psychologist, and a mindfulness teacher explain what stress does to your body and mind, and how to use it to get smarter and stronger.
Unlikely Collaborators
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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.