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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
Why dispelling the notion that it's all about getting the correct answer is so powerful.
For centuries, Newton's inverse square law of gravity worked beautifully, but no one knew why. Here's how Einstein finally explained it.
Quarks and leptons are the smallest known subatomic particles. Does the Standard Model allow for an even smaller layer of matter to exist?
Big Think guest writer Rory Stewart — former UK Secretary of State for International Development and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast — made a profound discovery about leadership while working with GiveDirectly.
Today, the Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle physics experiment in history. What would a new, successor collider teach us?
"I know what you're thinking" can sound kind or creepy — depending on who's saying it.
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“We can use neuroscience and tools from psychology to learn how to take advantage of anxiety.” From Zen Buddhism to flow state, these 3 experts explain how to hack your brain.
A recent paper in the journal Physical Review Letters claims to prove that a "kugelblitz" is not possible.
The idea of awarding legal personhood to nature has received renewed attention in the contemporary environmental justice movement, but much contention remains.
After almost a century in print, "How to Win Friends and Influence People" still has lessons to teach us.
The Danish philosopher's simple paradox — living forwards while looking backwards — can be translated into golden business insights.
The rise and fall of Josh Harris — the genius who anticipated the digital revolution just a little too soon.
AI researcher and author Ken Stanley wonders how our rear-view perspective on success fits into a serendipitous mode of innovation.
Carving out time for useful reflection is among the most valuable of leadership disciplines, explains “questionologist” Warren Berger.
"Business Adventures" by John Brooks was first published in 1969 and remains a must-read for all CEOs.
Chip Conley — founder and CEO of JDV Hospitality and Airbnb’s former Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy — maps out an inclusive path from hindsight to wisdom.
Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.
Josh Kaufman — best-selling author of entrepreneurial classic "The Personal MBA" — explores an essential truth about all decision-making.
Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.
In the 1970s, James Lovelock proposed that the biosphere was not just green scruff quivering on Earth's surface. Instead, it managed to take over the geospheres.