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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
The double-slit experiment, hundreds of years after it was first performed, still holds the key mystery at the heart of quantum physics.
Newton thought that gravitation would happen instantly, propagating at infinite speeds. Einstein showed otherwise; gravity isn't instant.
A good decision can blow up, and a terrible one can pay off.
The artistic and the mathematical mind are not so far apart.
As far as we can tell, there's no limit to how far it goes on; only a limit to how far we can see. Could the Universe truly be infinite?
Books to expand your perspective on history, philosophy, space exploration, and more this year.
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.
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.
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.