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Cities and organizations alike risk becoming highly efficient — but indistinguishable — unless leaders actively preserve space for imagination and deviation.
It's not just about the home; it's about everything.
How to look cool in post-war France in black and white photos.
Here are three ways to do it better.
Wonder is like a guest you haven’t planned for.
How deep is your kink?
Want to study philosophy but skip some of its heavier tomes? These five novels are a great place to start. (Existential despair guaranteed.)
The award-winning nature writer, Robert Macfarlane, talks with Big Think about how to reacquaint ourselves with the rivers in our lives.
Barthes is dead — long live the artist.
In his book, "Birds, Sex and Beauty," Matt Ridley explores why learning isn't always nature versus nurture.
"Lookism" is prevalent and harmful. So why do so few take it seriously?
From Allen Funt to Donald Trump, author Emily Nussbaum explains how reality TV has blurred the lines between, well, reality and TV.
The artistic and the mathematical mind are not so far apart.
What if the barrier to a fulfilled life isn’t technology but culture?
Some biologists believe natural selection produces animals that are just good enough. Dawkins disagrees.
Philosophy cures no disease and invents nothing new. What's even the point?
Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.
How has tennis changed in recent decades? The wear and tear on Wimbledon’s Centre Court may tell the tale.
Going against the grain is often difficult — but necessary for outperformance over the long-term.
Sound may be an overlooked tool for boosting well-being.
God is not a vending machine, but is it wrong to treat him like one?
“I believe that in the future, there will be a Francis Bacon of AI art,” Saltz tells Big Think. “We just haven't seen that artist yet.”
Beer before wine and you'll feel fine? Well, it depends.
The secret sauce of humor is incongruity. AI knows this as well as we do.
Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.
It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.
We are wired to value things more when we work hard at attaining them — even if, objectively, they aren't worth that much.
"Time Warp" all the way back to 1800s spiritualism, magic performances, and spook shows.
The great philosopher spent the final portion of his painful life in a vegetative state. Did illness get him there, or was it his own philosophy?