The Latest from Big Think

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Thinking your life is worthwhile is correlated with a variety of positive outcomes.
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, explains his plan for success.
It has already found several bizarre planets outside of our solar system.
5mins
This economy has us in survival mode, stressing out our bodies and minds.
Kepler showed us that the Universe is full of planets around other stars. TESS is giving us our next great leap. It’s been nearly a decade since NASA’s Kepler mission first […]
Some experts say there's no such thing. I choose to believe there likely is.
Is this the real life or is it just fantasy? And does it really even matter?
A new study explores how certain personality traits affect individuals' attitudes on obesity in others.
The history of the Geneva Conventions tells us how the international community draws the line on brutality.
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The Green New Deal is an ambitious attempt to fight climate change, but is it destined to hit the political skids?
Air pollution is up to five times over the EU limit in these Central London hotspots.
It works better than other memorization techniques.
White-nose syndrome is nearly as lethal to bats as the Black Plague was for humans.
8mins
How you talk to people with drug addiction might save their life.
This is what we’ve learned from first object ever discovered to enter our Solar System from interstellar space. Billions of years ago, our Solar System was an extraordinarily different place […]
A conversation with Sabine Hossenfelder.
Arranged marriages and Western romantic practices have more in common than we might think.