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Astronomer Adam Frank reflects on some responses to his recent appearance on the Lex Fridman Podcast.
"I think it's about time we stop allowing every male generation bang their frontal lobe through its most developmental stages."
When Star Trek's Captain Picard and The Office's Dwight Schrute channel philosopher Karl Jaspers, we can all benefit.
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“Many people get stuck in feeling responsible for their psychological state, and there's a way in which simply being with whatever uncomfortable emotions rather than believing that you are controlling them can be extremely beneficial for psychological wellbeing.”
The electromagnetic force can be attractive, repulsive, or "bendy," but is always mediated by the photon. How does one particle do it all?
From King Midas to Gordon Gekko, humanity has struggled to grasp greed's true nature.
Despite no experimental evidence showing that gravitons exist, they remain a respectable concept in the world of professional physicists.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Many of us look at black holes as cosmic vacuum cleaners: sucking in everything in their vicinity. But it turns out they don't suck at all.
"Mainstream computing will start to shift from a race to develop increasingly powerful tools to a race to develop increasingly powerful abilities."
Can we learn to always look on the bright side of life?
Caitlin Rivers wants to tell the story of epidemiology and the public health heroes who keep the world safe and healthy.
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It can be overwhelming to navigate the pains of life, but the iconic self-help author believes you can find yourself by answering just four questions
Unlikely Collaborators
There's no upper limit to how massive galaxies or black holes can be, but the most massive known star is only ~260 solar masses. Here's why.
Radically improve your work-life speaking and presentation skills with a technique used by musicians and brand-name politicians.
Pleasure, virtue, and doubt are necessary, but each is insufficient on its own.
An extraordinary haberdasher obsessed with buttons, lace collars, and death pioneered modern statistical analysis during the Age of Reason.
In the year 2000, physicists created a list of the ten most important unsolved problems in their field. 25 years later, here's where we are.
Chetan Dube — founder and CEO of Quant — tells Big Think why a pivotal and monumental year for agentic AI has just begun.
"You’ll be able to fly twice as fast as a Boeing or Airbus, and it’ll be like the cost of flying business today."