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Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
For his new book, “The Ghost Lab,” Matt Hongoltz-Hetling spent time with paranormal investigators to understand their relationship with science and society.
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"If we did create beings that were more like non-human animals, we ought to treat them much better than we now treat non-human animals."
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can't do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
If happiness is an absolute good, would 1 billion slightly happy people be better than 1 million incredibly happy people?
"We are racing towards a new era in which we outsource cognitive abilities that are central to our identity as thinking beings," writes computer scientist Louis Rosenberg.
John Green opens up about his struggle to remain hopeful while writing about suffering and injustice.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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“When you think about this interconnection of all these tiny causes and effects which add up to the way the world unfolds, it becomes impossible to imagine that we have complete control.”
The child has no control at all and the adult tries to control too much. But there is a third way.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will image the southern sky using the largest digital camera ever built.
"The stars made our minds, and now our minds look back."
The outrageously accomplished magician-inventor-author chats to Big Think about fear, multitasking, and successful work-life reinvention.
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Aristotle thought that a friend you love is considered your ‘second-self’, someone whose pain feels like your own. Philosopher Meghan Sullivan asks, what happens when you extend that kind of love to strangers?
As US science faces record cuts to funding, jobs, and facilities, these 10 quotes help remind us how science brings value to us all.
From bondage to freedom: Baruch Spinoza’s guide to the rational life.
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“It's a remarkable series of events that were required for us to be here, and that so many things could have happened in a different way that we wouldn't be here at all, both individually, and as a species.”
An atheist's case for why American democracy needs a more Christlike Christianity.
Rutger Bregman's "Moral Ambition" wants us to aim our careers not at money but solving the world's biggest problems.
What made Leonardo da Vinci last wasn’t magic — it was process — and his study of fluids can help us win the long game.