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An image of an ancient black hole
Starts With A Bang
At 36 billion solar masses, is the heaviest black hole too massive?
At the center of Hubble's famous "cosmic horseshoe," a very heavy supermassive black hole has been robustly measured. How is it possible?
Ethan Siegel
A man with a bald head and beard sits on a chair with arms resting on his lap, in front of a yellow rectangle with black lines and dots extending outward.
Big Think+
4 requirements for high performance
Why talent alone isn’t enough to achieve your goals.
Josh Browning
Illustration of a skateboarder in mid-air performing a trick, with labeled rotation angles (720°, 900°) and the term “McTwist” on a blue sky background with clouds.
Smart Skills
How to instantly be better at things
Just pretend you're someone else.
Cate Hall
A hand holding a sealed envelope emerges from turbulent ocean waves against a black background.
13 min
Yuval Noah Harari: How to safeguard your mind in the age of junk information
“All information technologies up to the 21st century were organic networks based on our organic brain.”
Yuval Noah Harari
A vintage, hexagonal brooch featuring a realistic painted human eye in the center, surrounded by a metallic frame.
3 min
The Well
The case for useless knowledge
Astrobiologist Betül Kaçar on why the simple act of asking questions (without needing a reason) is one of the most powerful things a human can do.
Betül Kaçar 
The image shows the cover of the book "Me, My Customer & AI" by Henrik Werdelin and Nicholas Thorne alongside the text "an excerpt from," set on a split blue and green background, hinting at the future of headless agents in business.
Business
How Dell’s membrane paved the way for “headless agents”
In the post-AI startup landscape, the role of the entrepreneur will evolve from operator to orchestrator. Are you ready?
Henrik Werdelin
Two ancient coins depicting explicit erotic scenes with human figures in sexual positions, shown against a black background.
40 min
The Roman Empire, explained in 39 minute
"One of the ways you can see the Roman Empire is it's the worldwide web of its day."
Mary Beard
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