The Latest from Big Think

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If you want the best shot at long-term success, it can pay to supplement hot-shots with seasoned industry veterans.
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7mins
From trepanning to lobotomies, humans have long struggled to manage emotion. Today, we have better tools. Psychologist Ethan Kross shares what actually works, and why.
every square degree
When the Hubble Space Telescope first launched in 1990, there was so much we didn't know. Here's how far we've come.
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“The public really doesn't realize that they are much closer to CIA spies than they think they are.”
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Once you cross a black hole's event horizon, there's no going back. But inside, could creating a singularity give birth to a new Universe?
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Before becoming America’s most infamous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was a magnetic actor who was beloved by audiences and courted by critics.
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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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From high school through the professional ranks, physicists still take incredible lessons away from Newton's second law.
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It’s something to wrestle and live with, says behavioral scientist Arthur Brooks.
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The benefits of compassion in the workplace are manifold — but leaders should retain an intentional focus on mental, emotional, and physical balance.
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Today’s technologist archetypes share a blind spot. Brendan McCord, founder of the Cosmos Institute explains why “philosophy is essential” when building planetary-scale technology.
Cosmos Institute
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No matter what it is that we discover about reality, the fact that reality itself can be understood remains the most amazing fact of all.
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After more than a million years of separation, two branches of humanity reunited around 300,000 years ago, suggests new research.
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In "Dinner with King Tut," Sam Kean examines how a burgeoning field is recreating ancient tasks to uncover historical truths.
gravitational wave effects on spacetime
With over 300 high-significance gravitational wave detections, we now have a huge unsolved puzzle. Will we invest in finding the solution?
Book cover of "The Generalist Advantage" by Mansoor Soomro, PhD, featuring a circular diagram of four generalist types—Ultra, Domain, Hybrid, and Skill Generalist—highlighting the unique generalist superpowers each type offers.
From Apple to Airbnb to OpenAI the generalist mindset has been an invaluable source of advantage — and we can all learn from these successes.
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18mins
“By not focusing on the outcome and instead designing a tiny experiment, what you can do is letting go of any definition of success, letting go of that binary results that you're looking for, and instead focusing something that makes you feel curious and that you want to explore.”
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Philosopher Meghan Sullivan challenges the idea that religious texts can’t be taken seriously in modern philosophy. She explains how parables, scripture, and debate have always been connected to asking life’s biggest questions: