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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will image the southern sky using the largest digital camera ever built.
In "Raising AI," De Kai argues that today's AIs are already more like us than we think they are.
A reduced working week, argues Juliet Schor, is part of a sane response to the impacts of AI and robotization on human labor.
For decades, astronomers have claimed the Milky Way will merge with Andromeda in ~4 billion years. Here's why, in 2025, that seems unlikely.
"The stars made our minds, and now our minds look back."
The outrageously accomplished magician-inventor-author chats to Big Think about fear, multitasking, and successful work-life reinvention.
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Aristotle thought that a friend you love is considered your ‘second-self’, someone whose pain feels like your own. Philosopher Meghan Sullivan asks, what happens when you extend that kind of love to strangers?
As US science faces record cuts to funding, jobs, and facilities, these 10 quotes help remind us how science brings value to us all.
How we handle grief largely depends on our worldview. Here is how three famous philosophers handled the certainty of grief and despair.
From bondage to freedom: Baruch Spinoza’s guide to the rational life.
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“It's a remarkable series of events that were required for us to be here, and that so many things could have happened in a different way that we wouldn't be here at all, both individually, and as a species.”
In our Universe, dark matter outmasses normal matter by a 5-to-1 ratio, shaping the Universe as we know it. What if it simply weren't there?
An atheist's case for why American democracy needs a more Christlike Christianity.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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"I'd prefer to think about a different axis, which is, should government be more or less effective? Should government work faster or slower?"
It rotates on its axis, revolves around the Sun, moves throughout the Milky Way, and gets carried by our galaxy all throughout space.
Rutger Bregman's "Moral Ambition" wants us to aim our careers not at money but solving the world's biggest problems.
The long-elusive neutrino was shown to have a bizarre property no one expected: mass. New, tightest-ever limits have profound implications.
A comparison of wealth gaps in ancient empires reveals stark differences and lasting consequences.
What made Leonardo da Vinci last wasn’t magic — it was process — and his study of fluids can help us win the long game.