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Scientists still aren't sure how they perform without those restorative Z's.
ATD 2024 challenged us to make moments of recovery part of our daily practice. Here's how each keynote speaker advised finding that balance.
Mental health awareness is more widespread than ever. Some professionals think it may have gone overboard — especially on TikTok.
AI projects reveal both heroes and villains in your workforce — success depends on maximizing the number of heroes.
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.
Sound may be an overlooked tool for boosting well-being.
Are fava beans and chianti really the best pairing for human liver?
Redemption is the journey towards becoming a better person. It's the story of human life.
An excerpt from renowned neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s book “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.”
The future belongs to complexity.
Depression can cause you to think too much — and physically sense too little.
"How long someone thinks about [a] problem is a really good proxy of how humans behave."
The philosopher Skye C. Cleary explores what being authentically happy looks like in a world where so many can't be.
Out beyond Neptune are some fascinating bodies left over from our Solar System's formation. Could one of them truly be spectacular?
Fixing chronic pain in the body may sometimes require a treatment focused on the brain.
Recent research sheds light on how the brain overgeneralizes fear, causing people to be afraid of harmless situations.
An argument for emphasis on subjective experience.
From Nick Carraway to Charles Marlow, these side characters offered truths their scene-stealing protagonists couldn't.
The mindless implementation of AI tools can come at a cost for our teams. Here are some red flags and solutions.
While GLP-1 agonists help people lose weight, different drugs could help them retain muscle at the same time.
Freethink asks three different kinds of experts to answer this question.
The road from Kant to modern cognitive psychology has taught us much about our mental filtering systems.
A new framework describes how thought arises from the coordination of neural activity driven by oscillating electric fields — a.k.a. brain “waves” or “rhythms.”
33 years ago, the theoretical biologist Robert Rosen offered an answer to the question "Is life computable?"
Over-reliance on experts with quick fixes has taken us too far from reality — it’s time to dispel the fairy tales.
We will believe in AGI when it calls on Facetime.
If music is a window onto truth, what does screaming reveal?
Schopenhauer and Freud can help teams navigate the most prickly of collaboration problems.
Big Think recently spoke with behavioral scientist and author Katy Milkman about what really motivates us and steers our behavior.
If words are really only 7% of communication, then why would anyone need to learn a foreign language?