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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
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From anger to awe: How one woman overcame “debilitating trauma” to conquer a near-impossible 53-hour swim at 64.
Physicist Don Lincoln explains why mathematics is a powerful tool for scientific modeling, but is not a science itself.
Today's philosophy students would be justified in asking, "What does any of this have to do with living?"
Yondr CEO Graham Dugoni unpacks the technological zeitgeist in this exclusive Big Think interview covering media ecology, leadership, AI, human connection, and much more.
Astronomer Adam Frank reflects on some responses to his recent appearance on the Lex Fridman Podcast.
"I think it's about time we stop allowing every male generation bang their frontal lobe through its most developmental stages."
When Star Trek's Captain Picard and The Office's Dwight Schrute channel philosopher Karl Jaspers, we can all benefit.
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“Many people get stuck in feeling responsible for their psychological state, and there's a way in which simply being with whatever uncomfortable emotions rather than believing that you are controlling them can be extremely beneficial for psychological wellbeing.”
The electromagnetic force can be attractive, repulsive, or "bendy," but is always mediated by the photon. How does one particle do it all?
From King Midas to Gordon Gekko, humanity has struggled to grasp greed's true nature.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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It can be overwhelming to navigate the pains of life, but the iconic self-help author believes you can find yourself by answering just four questions
Unlikely Collaborators
Pleasure, virtue, and doubt are necessary, but each is insufficient on its own.
In the year 2000, physicists created a list of the ten most important unsolved problems in their field. 25 years later, here's where we are.
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“In our current social and physical climate, there's a sense of fatalism, a fear that bringing someone new into the world might be a bad thing.”
Our Universe isn't just expanding, the expansion is accelerating. Instead of dark energy, could a "lumpy" Universe be at fault?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The biases that shape our understanding of the mind.
One alchemist's search for a whiz-bang method to produce gold unlocked the central science instead.
Why the advertising legend — and author of Alchemy — believes that inefficiency can be genius and insects can unlock innovation.