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Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
In "Not Born Yesterday," author and cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier makes the case that misinformation is overrated — and other human foibles are underrated.
19 rooms. 1,636 square feet. 1,800 years of history.
"The movement is much bigger than Sam Bankman-Fried, or any one person, no matter how wealthy," philosopher Peter Singer told Big Think.
From inside our Solar System, zodiacal light prevents us from seeing true darkness. From billions of miles away, New Horizons finally can.
9 minutes of cruel history may cure the anti-progress delusion.
Executive coach Jodi Wellman explains how to “make it to the end with no regrets.”
The true story of the shot that "reverberated through England" when science collided head-on with religion.
It's knowledgeable, confident, and behaves human-like in many ways. But it's not magic that powers AI though; it's just math and data.
Ryan Condal, who worked in pharmaceutical advertising before Hollywood, talks with Big Think about imposter syndrome, "precrastination," and Westeros lore.
While the concept stretches back centuries, it has garnered significant attention in recent decades.
The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.
A new method of mapping migration factors in erratic movements and changing climate.
We know of stellar mass and supermassive black holes, but intermediate mass ones have long proved elusive. Until now.
For most of human history, babies probably picked up language by overhearing.
In "Moral Ambition," Dutch historian Rutger Bregman argues that all would benefit from a collective redefinition of success.
Half a century ago, idealistic punks shook a fist at the status quo — and their legacy is a blueprint for modern leadership.
On a cosmic scale, our existence seems insignificant and inconsequential. But from another perspective, humans are completely remarkable.
Concerns about privacy and pressures regarding the physical appearance of women and their homes contributed to the failure of AT&T’s 1960s Picturephone.
The military is courting tech startups to help it win the AI arms race.
Each year, over half a million migrants cross the deadly jungle separating Colombia from Panama in search of a better life in the United States.