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Jad Abumrad
A person with short dark hair and a beard sits indoors wearing a brown jacket and dark shirt. The background features blurred indoor elements and a tree.
8mins
Perception Box
Dhar Mann on failure, fatherhood, and the spreadsheet that changed his life
Dhar Mann
Unlikely Collaborators
Person wearing a purple floral top and hoop earrings, looking upwards. A plant and a wooden table are in the background.
7mins
Perception Box
What it means to live urgently, according to death doula Alua Arthur  
Alua Arthur
Unlikely Collaborators
A person with white hair sits in front of a colorful, abstract background. They are wearing a dark blazer over a striped shirt.
7mins
Perception Box
How Byron Katie accidentally discovered joy in the darkest of times
Byron Katie
Unlikely Collaborators
A person holding a match in front of a colorful background.
5mins
Perception Box
Are psychedelics really the key to expanding our consciousness?
James Fadiman
Unlikely Collaborators
A woman sitting on a chair in a room.
6mins
Perception Box
Meet the woman who wants to change the way you think about sex
Cindy Gallop
Unlikely Collaborators
A tree diagram with branches labeled Astrobiology, Technology, Physics, Math, and Sociology, representing different academic disciplines.
42mins
The Well
A playground for geniuses: Inside the Santa Fe Institute
Kmele Foster & Brandon Stewart
Black outline of an atomic symbol with three intersecting ellipses on a solid blue background.
38mins
The Well
Finding the secret of human existence in an atom-smasher
Kmele Foster & Brandon Stewart
A bright sun rises over the curved horizon of a dark planet in space, with a faint glow outlining the planet’s edge against a starry background.
35mins
The Well
Finding meaning in the darkest sky on earth
Kmele Foster & Brandon Stewart
White handwritten text reading "I am not a robot" appears distorted and crossed with a horizontal line, set against a black background with scattered small white dots.
5mins
The Well
AI is smart — but can it think?
Michael Wooldridge
Two parallel strands of orange barbed wire set against a black background.
8mins
The Well
The case against trigger warnings
Jonathan Haidt
A black-and-white painting depicts a man with tousled hair, a mustache, and a suit with a tie, facing forward against a textured background.
8mins
The Well
Finding the world’s next “hidden genius”
Albert-László Barabási
A sequence of black-and-white frames showing a horse and rider in motion, depicting various stages of a gallop.
9mins
The Well
Embrace the “dark horse” mindset to find success
Sarah Robb O'Hagan, Michio Kaku, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Todd Rose & Alex Banayan
A softly colored illustration of a double rainbow arches over a calm blue sea under a pastel sky, evoking harmony between religion and science.
4mins
The Well
Is religion a threat to science?
Francis Collins
John Templeton Foundation
Thinking
Gen. Stanley McChrystal: Assess risk like a 4-star general
Stanley McChrystal
A surreal painting ponders is time travel possible, with melting clocks draped over a tree, ledge, and abstract form in a barren landscape against distant cliffs.
The Well
Time travel is possible. Can we go back?
Brian Greene
John Templeton Foundation
Smart Skills
Sludge: How paperwork, wait times, and confusion degrade our well-being
Cass Sunstein
The Fearless Girl Statue
Neuropsych
An act of self-forgery: Imposter syndrome and how to overcome it
Alisa Cohn
10mins
Thinking
The art of asking the right questions
Big Think
Neuropsych
Why reading is a form of therapy in times of crisis
Elisa New
Hard Science
How a future Nobel Winner inspired me
Marcelo Gleiser
Life
About that “A-word”
Mark Moring
The Present
Bernie Sanders: The U.S. already has a kind of socialism – for the rich
Scotty Hendricks
Thinking
Curiosity and short-sightedness
Marcelo Gleiser
Life
“Some people swear their houseplants are conscious.”
Mark Moring
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Celebrating Black inventors
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