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The cofounder of Hyrox — one of the fastest-growing global brands in fitness — puts his snowballing success through a proper Big Think workout.
According to Stephen Hawking, spontaneously emitted radiation should cause all black holes to decay. But we've never seen it: not even once.
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Grandmasters and drug dealers have one thing in common: They are many steps ahead of their rivals.
The book cover of "Unstoppable Entrepreneurs" by Lori Rosenkopf features a cracked wall, unveiling insights on entrepreneurship, bootstrapping, and innovation.
Warren Buffett famously noted that Berkshire Hathaway would “never depend on the kindness of strangers to stay in business.” Startups take note.
In all the known Universe, Earth is the only planet known to have native life. What should guide us in expanding humanity beyond our world?
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If an asteroid hadn't killed off the dinosaurs, humans would almost certainly have never walked the Earth.
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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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Empty space itself, the quantum vacuum, could be in either a true, stable state or a false, unstable state. Our fate depends on the answer.
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Trump may make America great again — just not in the way he had intended.
An astronaut stands proudly on the moon's surface near scientific equipment and a lunar lander, as the American flag waves in the background, symbolizing a pioneering USA nation.
After drastic cuts to the NIH, the FDA, the NSF, and the DOE, NASA science faces down its smallest budget ever. All of society will suffer.
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"Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a truly foreign language."
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Barry Ritholtz — market commentator, founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and podcast host — shares what really trips investors up.
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Perhaps no existential question looms larger than that of our ultimate cosmic origins. At long last, science has provided the answers.
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From religious iconography to modern mysticism, the human aura has been a subject of fascination across centuries and cultures.
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The founder of GenZ Publishing joins Big Think from the infinitely unfurling confluence of print and digital.
A vast view of deep space, captured in one of NASA's most important images, displays numerous galaxies of varying shapes and colors against a dark backdrop scattered with distant stars.
The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, was originally seen as a colossal mistake. This one image, taken in 1995, changed everything.
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Surprisingly, multimodal large language models struggle to read time on analog clocks.
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In theory, scientists could've produced a deadly virus that accidentally infected lab workers. In practice, we know that didn't happen.