The Latest from Big Think

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Oppression causes many people to run for the hills. Literally.
America might be in the throes of a loneliness epidemic, but cultivating wisdom can help.
Good quotes are powerful catalysts for positive actions.
Your new year's resolutions should benefit not just yourself, but the whole planet.
Despite what you may have heard, they don’t suck anything in at all. Black holes are some of the strangest, most wondrous objects in all the Universe. With huge amounts of […]
A new study out of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville traces a disturbing correlation.
This technology could close the gap between nature and the man-made environment.
Celebrating five years since Grain Brain was published, David Perlmutter doubles down on his warnings.
The relationship between our genotypes and our psychological traits, while substantial, is highly indirect and emergent.
The Universe began almost perfectly uniform, while today, it’s anything but. Here’s how we grew up. One of the strangest facts about the Universe is how dramatically its changed over time. […]
New psychology research suggests people get more lasting joy from giving gifts.
The most surefire, easily-seen signature of life on Earth might be a cosmic red herring around other worlds. In our quest for life beyond the Solar System, it makes sense to […]
Renowned scientists and technologists who've passed away in 2018.
Nurturing several relationships at once can empower us to build a life so rich that when we lose one love among many, we don't feel as if we've lost 'everything.'
For generations, planet formation was only a theory. As 2018 comes to an end, here’s the evidence of what’s going on. The theory of planet formation has been around for a […]
Was Jesus a real historical figure? Here's what we know.
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