The Latest from Big Think

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3mins
Removing the pressure of finding your "dying passion" makes it easier to connect with the "why" of your work.
Billions of dollars have been lost on custom government IT projects that were eventually canceled.
4mins
Being stuck at home is not as intense as being away from Earth, but there are ways to cope in either scenario.
Even if you remove everything you can from the Universe, some energy will still remain. Here’s what that means. Imagine, if you can, what it would mean to have a Universe […]
Sexuality is fluid and it's important that people get to define it for themselves.
An overabundance of this particular protein make mice anxious and is found in human OCD patients.
The Data Atlas of the World specialises in simple yet revealing maps of the world.
The researchers hope to develop a no-trace plastic to curtail marine pollution and ghost fishing.
If confirmed, that's 10 times the official number of infected New Yorkers.
We might live in a quantum Universe, but we’ll violate the principle of relativity if space is discrete. If you try and divide matter into smaller and smaller chunks, you’ll […]
6mins
The best and worst of yesterday has created the economy of today.
Human-challenge trials are not without risk, but they could speed up the process.
O.T. Olsen's gorgeous 'Piscatorial Atlas' (1883) describes a world now destroyed and forgotten
If a patient requires a ventilator, a new study finds they have a low chance of survival.
Men take longer to clear COVID-19 from their systems; a male-only coronavirus repository may be why.
They say that atoms are mostly 99.99999% empty space. But quantum physics says otherwise. If you were to look at what your body is made of, at smaller and more […]
4mins
Here's how corporations can bring women out from the "leadership pipeline" and into actual leadership.