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Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff on how to spot and break free from cognitive scripts that limit personal growth.
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You got your promotion — but managing the pressure inherent to your elevated role is now a crucial part of your job.
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A new bill introduced into the US Senate claims to make us safer. Instead, it would destroy all virology research, and for no real cause.
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A study on the “moral circles” of liberals and conservatives gets drafted into the culture wars — with mixed results.
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The road to “uncaged leadership” means reimagining your professional identity and value. Here’s how.
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Astronomers see spiral and elliptical nebulae nearly everywhere, except by the Milky Way's plane. We didn't know why until the 20th century.
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Whether we should tear down philosophy’s Berlin Wall and let East and West finally merge depends entirely on what we think philosophy is—and what it’s for.
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Perhaps the most well-known equation in all of physics is Einstein's E = mc². Does mass or energy increase, then, near the speed of light?
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When plans fall apart, adaptability can build something better.
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While death-bed utterances are more famous, baby’s first words have influenced us too.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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We've wasted our time and resources ideologically policing and punishing each other for far too long. Here's a better route to prosperity.
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“I want to change the way we think about the past altogether,” says Dr. Betül Kaçar, an astrobiologist who studies the origin of life.
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Robert Waldinger, Zen priest and Harvard professor, explains why fulfillment isn’t about reaching an idealized state. It’s found in everyday acts of kindness and compassion.
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Big Think spoke with author and psychiatrist Elias Dakwar about addiction, rock bottom, and the moment you realize your compass is broken.
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From the tiniest subatomic scales to the grandest cosmic structures of all, everything that exists depends on two things: charge and mass.
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From Allen Funt to Donald Trump, author Emily Nussbaum explains how reality TV has blurred the lines between, well, reality and TV.
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Groundbreaking invention does not always translate to commercial benefits. The challenges that faced Microsoft Research help explain why.
A spacecraft with a large reflective dish orbits above Earth, exploring the starry galaxy and cosmic backdrop. Its mission? To map galaxies and teach us what the CMB can't, unlocking cosmic mysteries.
The CMB gives us critical information about our cosmic past. But it doesn't give us everything, and galaxy mapping can fill in a key gap.
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"Gyroscope-on-a-chip" technology could soon enable us to navigate over long distances without GPS.