Our Universe has a positive, non-zero value to the energy within empty space. Can we potentially save ourselves by considering vacuum decay?

The philosopher Svetlana Boym argues that "nostos" encourages people to reject the world as it is and seek to return to a better time — real or imagined.

People are almost always different to how we imagine them

Mathematics is our language for quantitatively describing reality, but it can also take us to worlds that never were. Physics needs more.

We experience only one small slice of the ruliad. What’s the ruliad? Stephen Wolfram explains.

The movie gestures at one of humanity's biggest questions yet chooses to look away, writes Big Think producer Clark Frankel.

The ambiguity of Bartleby shows that opting out can be a form of resistance, retreat, or something harder to judge.

How a culture of independence gave rise to a philosophy of self-reliance, solitude, and inner authority.

Trying to solve one’s existential dread by finding a singular purpose is a game won only by not playing.

Philosopher Gert Biesta on the real reason we should be wary of AI in education.

We used to think the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before it, erasing everything that existed prior.

"King" Willonius Hatcher, a comedian and AI storyteller, asserts that the AI revolution empowers creators to rapidly transform ideas into comprehensive projects—like pitch decks and marketing campaigns—allowing them to enhance their creative output while focusing on their core talents.

What do the laws of physics, biological evolution, and your free will have in common? The same mathematical principle runs through all of them. Stephen Wolfram has spent 40 years finding it.

Throwing away the narratives that pull us down and make us unhappy.

Two thousand years ago, the Chinese philosopher identified a problem workplaces still struggle with: leaders who create dependence rather than foster capability.

Einstein's most famous equation is E = mc², which describes the rest mass energy inherent to particles. But motion matters for energy, too.

Mindfulness is trending, with widespread celebrity endorsements and varying claims about its benefits, but Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of The Center for Mindfulness, aims to clarify its true meaning amidst the hype.

"Self-distancing" explains why the advice you’d give a friend in five minutes is the advice you can’t give yourself in a month.

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By probing the Universe on atomic scales and smaller, we can reveal the entirety of the Standard Model, and with it, the quantum Universe.