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Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
Big Think and the John Templeton Foundation gathered scientists, artists, and storytellers in Los Angeles to explore the power of awe.
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David S. Goyer explains how paying attention to mystery, and not brushing it aside, became the foundation for the way he builds stories, characters, and worlds.
In post-apocalyptic fiction, imagined futures turn today’s political and cultural tensions into geography.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
There are two sides to the AI debate, and both are perpetuating the idea that AI is “inevitable, all-powerful, and deserves to be controlled by a tiny group of people,” says the Empire of AI author.
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“The problem is in our information. Humans, yes, we are generally good and wise, but if you give good people bad information, they make bad decisions.”
As we crank up our search for more powerful AI, maybe we should slow down and reimagine the shape and language of intelligence itself.
Researcher and Google CTO Blaise Agüera y Arcas joins us to discuss his new book, "What Is Intelligence?"
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Pleasure is never bad — but its source can be.
In this excerpt from "The Hypocrisy Trap," Michael Hallsworth explains why accusations of hypocrisy don’t always damage credibility.
Media trailblazer Tim O’Reilly tells Big Think why AI requires "get yourself dirty" work — and warns us not to buy the hype.
We have a picture of how and when it will all come to an end. These three big ideas could still profoundly change how our cosmos evolves.
There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?
Joe Nucci, author of "Psychobabble," joins us to discuss how the misuse of psychological language risks blurring the lines between everyday problems and clinical diagnoses.
In this excerpt from "Strange Stability," Benjamin Wilson explores how the concept of "deterrence" went from explaining criminal behavior to becoming a nuclear strategy.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
What a 1950s experiment reveals about conformity in the age of the internet.
Although American Thanksgiving only comes once a year, the scientific rules that make our Universe possible are always worth appreciating.
Be weird and esoteric because humans are weird and esoteric.