The Latest from Big Think

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MACS J0717 galaxy cluster dark matter
Dark matter doesn't absorb or emit light, but it gravitates. Instead of something exotic and novel, could it just be dark, normal matter?
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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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We're all entitled to our own opinions, no matter how ill-informed they are. But facts are facts; we can't just choose the ones we prefer.
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Steve Jobs once quipped that Apple's professional managers "knew how to manage, but they didn't know how to do anything."
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She’s a fierce competitor on the ice. But the figure skater’s toughest battle has been accepting her shortcomings and learning to love herself.
Unlikely Collaborators
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Asteroid 2024 YR4, which could devastate a city's worth of humans, has gone from 1.2% to 2.3% to 2.6% to 3.1% chances of impact. Here's why.
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AI, anxiety, and emotional intelligence are on learners' minds as they prepare to tackle the new year.
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Neuroscientist and author Anne-Laure Le Cunff discusses the lasting benefits of uncertainty, curiosity, and the experimental mindset.
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From acclaimed novels to heretical treatises, sometimes a writer just doesn't want to put their name on the cover.
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A brief guide to habits that separate deep understanding from superficial knowledge — and how to cultivate them.
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Magicians use “change blindness” to delight audiences — and you can use it to become an excellent colleague.
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At extremely close distances to their stars, even rocky planets can be completely disintegrated. We've just caught our first one in action.
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Conversational AI agents will have a major advantage over human salespeople.
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From “job crafting” to questioning our preconceived ideas about work, there are many ways to fight burnout and disengagement.
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Ring galaxies are rare, but we think we know how they form. A new, early-stage version, the Bullseye galaxy, provides a new testing ground.
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New research challenges old assumptions about the evolution of the human brain.
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Here in our Solar System, terrestrial bodies get moons from gravitational capture or collisions. The Pluto-Charon system? It was both.
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Delirium is one of the most perplexing deathbed phenomena, exposing the gap between our cultural ideals of dying words and the reality of a disoriented mind.
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Only 5% of the Universe is made of normal "stuff" like we are. Could there be dark matter or dark energy life, or even aliens, out there?