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The “Closure Machine”: How humans really see the world (bigthink.com)
The history of natural selection, in 7 minutes (bigthink.com)
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LIGO, facing threats of closure, more than doubles its black hole haul (bigthink.com)
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SPHEREx and JWST reveal what comet 3I/ATLAS is… and isn’t (bigthink.com)
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How a dead star carved the “Hand of God” in space (bigthink.com)
Sean Carroll explains why physics is both simple and impossible (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: Can “zero-point energy” power the world? (bigthink.com)
How a dime-sized bone rewrote the story of human evolution (bigthink.com)
Sam Harris: Experience emotions without being consumed by them (bigthink.com)
Exceptional storytelling and the myth of superhuman AI (bigthink.com)
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The Mystery of Being You (bigthink.com)
Why the 21st century could bring a new “consciousness winter” (bigthink.com)
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“Pure awareness”: Inside the psychedelic that erases space, time, and self (bigthink.com)
Why AI gets stuck in infinite loops — but conscious minds don’t (bigthink.com)
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6 questions about consciousness with Annaka Harris (bigthink.com)
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Think like a crow, choose like a crab: The animals inside our minds (bigthink.com)
5 brilliant books on consciousness (bigthink.com)
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The science of spirituality, and how it can change your brain (bigthink.com)
NASA chief to defy agency’s charter, terminating science (bigthink.com)
The John Candeto interview: Bigger dreams and the colossal effect of “power laws” (bigthink.com)
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The best question a leader can ask: “What would my replacement do?” (bigthink.com)
See the best night sky images from Capture the Dark 2025 (bigthink.com)
The neuroscience of extremes: ruthless psychopathy to extraordinary generosity (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: Did life begin when the Universe was room temperature? (bigthink.com)
The Nexus Method: How to make the most of what you learn (bigthink.com)
“Going Nuclear”: New book makes the case for an atomic renaissance (bigthink.com)
Use the Triple Check Method to jumpstart your brain (bigthink.com)
Money as the dark matter of the universe (bigthink.com)
Does the Universe expand faster than the speed of light? (bigthink.com)
3 experts reveal how psychedelics can expand the walls of perception (bigthink.com)
How to give compliments and criticism for a happier work life (bigthink.com)
Einstein’s famous “change the facts” quote is an insidious lie (bigthink.com)
What exactly is “life?” Astrobiologists still have more questions than answers (bigthink.com)
What our shelves of unread books teach us about ourselves (bigthink.com)
How “6 points of connection” can repair our shared trust (bigthink.com)
At 36 billion solar masses, is the heaviest black hole too massive? (bigthink.com)
Four Requirements for High Performance (bigthink.com)
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The case for useless knowledge (bigthink.com)
Yuval Noah Harari: How to safeguard your mind in the age of junk information (bigthink.com)
How Dell’s membrane paved the way for “headless agents” (bigthink.com)
The fastest, cheapest particle physics path to a Higgs factory (bigthink.com)
Starts With A Bang podcast #120 – Exoplanet biosignatures (bigthink.com)
7 literary classics you can read in a weekend (bigthink.com)
The Roman Empire, explained in 39 minute (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: Are parallel universes and the multiverse real? (bigthink.com)
How two freak accidents shaped human evolution (bigthink.com)
The importance of intuition and the limits of rationalism (bigthink.com)
The ultimate energy limit that lasers will never surpass (bigthink.com)
3 ways to find and invite more wonder (bigthink.com)
The true cost of always needing to win an argument (bigthink.com)
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What a nuclear reactor on the Moon really means for NASA’s future (bigthink.com)
The Bogumil Baranowski interview: “Treat everyone with care” (bigthink.com)
The thought experiments that test your life, not your logic (bigthink.com)
Why your next CEO could be a machine (bigthink.com)
NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory: the future (or end) of NASA science (bigthink.com)
Mapped: How warm your city will be in the 2080s (bigthink.com)
The Alex Partridge interview: “Humans thrive through storytelling” (bigthink.com)
Extreme black hole system OJ 287 just got more interesting (bigthink.com)
Michio Kaku wants to solve Einstein’s unfinished equation (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: Why do scientists avoid the possibility of God? (bigthink.com)
Not just the Western Front: “Ring of Fire” rediscovers WWI’s global story (bigthink.com)
Anxiety gives you an advantage. Unlock it with neuroplasticity (bigthink.com)
On consciousness, AI, and panpsychism (bigthink.com)
Laniakea, our home supercluster, is already being torn apart (bigthink.com)
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Social media supercharged our disagreements. Could AI help us resolve them? (bigthink.com)
Leadership philosophy: Why Machiavelli’s “virtù” fits hand-in-glove with AI (bigthink.com)
Why “vibe physics” is the ultimate example of AI slop (bigthink.com)
John Amaechi shares the 6 books that changed his thinking (bigthink.com)
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5 big unanswered questions about the origin of life (bigthink.com)
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Making L&D business-critical: Talent development strategies that work (bigthink.com)
This one essential trait begins shaping us seconds after birth (bigthink.com)
The Katie Gatti Tassin interview: “Go the extra yard — not the extra mile” (bigthink.com)
5 science facts that come from simply watching the Moon (bigthink.com)
What 85 years of research says is the real key to happiness (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: Did our Universe really arise from nothing? (bigthink.com)
5 of the strangest books ever written (bigthink.com)
How the illusion of self shapes your reality (bigthink.com)
The art of mentorship and long-term thinking (bigthink.com)
The Universe requires quantum fields, not just quantum particles (bigthink.com)
The public-private myth: Why religion can’t be kept behind closed doors (bigthink.com)
The genius guide to future-proofing your career (bigthink.com)
The incredible physics of quantum levitation (bigthink.com)
How to escape the “dopamine crash loop” and rewire your curiosity (bigthink.com)
The migraine mystery: Why evolution never cured the pain in our heads (bigthink.com)
The Brad Feld interview: Meaning, mentorship, and giving first (bigthink.com)
The Universe is not the same forwards and backwards in time (bigthink.com)
Is this acre in England really American territory? (bigthink.com)
Manage your emotions, in 9 minutes (bigthink.com)
Founders: The hiring strategy that can turn scrappy to stellar (bigthink.com)
What we’ve learned after 35 years of NASA’s Hubble (bigthink.com)
The hidden process of becoming a CIA agent, from a former spy (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: Could our whole Universe be a black hole’s interior? (bigthink.com)
The rise and fall of John Wilkes Booth: America’s first celebrity assassin (bigthink.com)
The laboratory accident that saved 500 million lives (bigthink.com)
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The meaning of your life isn’t a puzzle to solve (bigthink.com)
The Tree of Kink: What science teaches us about fetish clusters (bigthink.com)
Will AI erode human autonomy, or help us preserve it? (bigthink.com)
3 essential self-care habits for compassionate leadership (bigthink.com)
The single most amazing fact about the Universe (bigthink.com)
Evolution isn’t a straight line: Modern humans come from 2 ancient lineages (bigthink.com)
Science meets sweat: How experimental archaeology brings history to life (bigthink.com)
LIGO’s heaviest black hole demands next-generation science (bigthink.com)
Why philosophy needs the Bible (and vice versa) (bigthink.com)
The 6 superpowers of generalists: Leadership gold dust (bigthink.com)
How particle physics will continue after the last collider (bigthink.com)
Are black holes the key to unlocking a quantum theory of gravity? (bigthink.com)
Gaming cancer: How video games and citizen science could help cure disease (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: Can we fix the worst prediction in all of science? (bigthink.com)
More people, more pollution? Dispelling an environmental myth (bigthink.com)
The Fermi Paradox has a terrifying answer: The Dark Forest (bigthink.com)
The hidden rules of business — according to nature (bigthink.com)
Jupiter endangers Earth, and may have extincted the dinosaurs (bigthink.com)
The 4 psychological markers of ideological extremism (bigthink.com)
The top quark isn’t a loner after all: “toponium” is real! (bigthink.com)
Why did Van Gogh eat yellow paint? The troubled obsession behind the masterpieces. (bigthink.com)
Why memento mori is the ultimate life hack (bigthink.com)
Humanity’s third interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, is arriving now (bigthink.com)
The “digital dividend”: Rethinking income for the age of AI (bigthink.com)
Did JWST catch the Ring Nebula forming new planets? (bigthink.com)
The ocean is evolving, and it’s not based on the ‘survival of the fittest’ (bigthink.com)
Starts With a Bang podcast #119 – The CMB (bigthink.com)
The science-backed guide to having better sex (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: Could the CMB arise from galaxies, not the Big Bang? (bigthink.com)
Why your microbiome may matter more than DNA for your lifelong health (bigthink.com)
Brian Cox: The Planck scale is where physics breaks (bigthink.com)
Inside the subtle art of succession (bigthink.com)
A unique mission to both Uranus and Neptune could launch in 2034 (bigthink.com)
The noble lie: Why countries that lie together, stay together (bigthink.com)
American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history (bigthink.com)
5 stories that teach you philosophy (better than some philosophy books) (bigthink.com)
How the startup “pivot” can become a billion-dollar masterstroke (bigthink.com)
JWST’s early galaxies didn’t break the Universe. They revealed it. (bigthink.com)
A philosopher’s guide to caring deeply (bigthink.com)
“Blue ocean strategy”: The red thread connecting Apple with Yellow Tail (bigthink.com)
5 ways our naked-eye views of the night sky deceive us (bigthink.com)
5 science-backed ways to extend your healthspan (bigthink.com)
Murder, she measured: The impressive science behind Agatha Christie’s poisons (bigthink.com)
Legal fraud: How the books get cooked (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: What puzzles can the Vera Rubin Observatory help solve? (bigthink.com)
Sam Harris: Breaking the thought trap of anger (bigthink.com)
AI vs. humans: A question of humanity (bigthink.com)
Busting the top 5 myths about the Big Bang (bigthink.com)
Does the evolution of reason undermine the belief in evolution? (bigthink.com)
Paralyzed, Alana Nichols thought her athletic career was over. Then she changed her mind. (bigthink.com)
Deep listening: The 8 steps to revitalize any conversation (bigthink.com)
CIA psychology: Ask questions that make people reveal everything (bigthink.com)
JWST discovers how we’re able to see the Universe at all (bigthink.com)
The “quantum long game” (bigthink.com)
Operation TRIGON: How a rookie spy helped change the world of espionage (bigthink.com)
4 way leaders can supercharge their CQ: “Cultural intelligence” (bigthink.com)
You can’t do your own research without doing your homework first (bigthink.com)
Ceres: The asteroid belt’s forgotten ocean world (bigthink.com)
What NASA is really looking for in space (bigthink.com)
The Snorre Kjesbu interview: “Collaboration will become truly immersive” (bigthink.com)
JWST captures its most extreme gravitational lens ever (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: Is the Hubble tension a real problem? (bigthink.com)
“Otroverts” and why nonconformists often see what others can’t (bigthink.com)
The science behind the 10-minute brain reset walk (bigthink.com)
The myth of leadership (bigthink.com)
ANITA did see weird particles, but not parallel Universes (bigthink.com)
3 ways to have more meaningful conversations (bigthink.com)
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AI is already in the classroom. It’s time colleges caught up. (bigthink.com)
John le Carré’s son joins the Circus with his new book (bigthink.com)
Why “Systems Leadership” is hard in the best possible way (bigthink.com)
Video: NASA’s PUNCH mission sees the Sun’s corona in action (bigthink.com)
Big Think introduces updated Learner and Discussion Guides, now in 15 languages (bigthink.com)
When to quit: A simple framework for life’s toughest decisions (bigthink.com)
Does hope for humanity rely on philosophy? (bigthink.com)
6 ways for leaders to hone their “visual literacy” (bigthink.com)
Could supermassive black holes anchor the tiniest galaxies? (bigthink.com)
Why China is eating its tiny neighbor, Bhutan (bigthink.com)
Helen Fisher: How science can explain heartbreak (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: Does cosmic inflation violate energy conservation? (bigthink.com)
Why don’t Americans trust experts? Just ask a paranormal investigator. (bigthink.com)
The ethical crisis lurking in the background of the AI boom (bigthink.com)
The end of extraction and the rise of abundance (bigthink.com)
How to understand the Universe’s the most important equation (bigthink.com)
The “repugnant conclusion” that an Oxford philosopher couldn’t escape (bigthink.com)
The hidden cost of chasing clarity (bigthink.com)
Why Kevin Smith bet 27,575 on a movie no one showed up for (bigthink.com)
Uranus’s moons are darkened on one side, Hubble reveals (bigthink.com)
The Tony Seba and James Arbib interview: Why the future belongs to “stellar societies” (bigthink.com)
A Mesozoic myth: Dinosaurs didn’t rule the Earth like we think (bigthink.com)
Want the secret to stunning presentations? Ask Hollywood legend Francis Ford Coppola (bigthink.com)
Astronomers close in on the source of the highest energy particles (bigthink.com)
What happens the day after humanity creates AGI? (bigthink.com)
Meet the survivors of Earth’s worst days (bigthink.com)
The great friendship collapse: Inside The Anti-Social Century (bigthink.com)
The Steve Hanke interview: “Writing a tweet is the endgame of the Feynman Technique” (bigthink.com)
JWST reveals that galaxies grow up quickly in our Universe (bigthink.com)
Starts With A Bang podcast #118 – Snowball Earth (bigthink.com)
Life is older, weirder, and more interconnected than we ever thought (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: What are the “first stars” in the Universe? (bigthink.com)
‘Everything is Tuberculosis’ author John Green on writing, anxiety, and illness (bigthink.com)
The impossibility of control in a butterfly-effected world (bigthink.com)
Rethinking civilization: A new architecture for humanity (bigthink.com)
780,000 galaxies revealed in JWST’s largest science operation (bigthink.com)
The dancing monk: Why mature people don’t chase total control (bigthink.com)
Trauma makes your world feel small — here’s how to open it up again (bigthink.com)
Anomaly no more! “Muon g-2” puzzle resolved at last (bigthink.com)
The hunt for alien technosignatures is getting a high-tech upgrade (bigthink.com)
Why AI today is more toddler than Terminator (bigthink.com)
Our jobs and AI: Why the 4-day week should anchor our work-lives (bigthink.com)
How the Milky Way-Andromeda merger became so uncertain (bigthink.com)
5 scientists on finding meaning in our Universe’s 13.8-billion-year story (bigthink.com)
The three laws of love, and how to follow them (bigthink.com)
The Andrew Mayne interview: How to succeed as a polymath (bigthink.com)
10 quotes about science’s value to society (bigthink.com)
Three responses to grief in the philosophy of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Camus (bigthink.com)
What Spinoza can teach us about living a great life (bigthink.com)
The unlikely asteroid collision that made your life possible (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: What would the Universe be like without dark matter? (bigthink.com)
The price of Christianity’s “broken bargain” with democracy (bigthink.com)
Policy and process is paralyzing the US government (bigthink.com)
How to “outlast”: What Leonardo da Vinci can teach us (bigthink.com)
How fast does planet Earth move through space? (bigthink.com)
The “SSS” framework: How to change the world with what you have (bigthink.com)
The mystery of neutrino mass is now smaller than ever (bigthink.com)
Why ancient China was less equal than the Roman Empire (bigthink.com)
What Leonardo’s obsession with water teaches us about longevity (bigthink.com)
Who was Jesus of Nazareth? History’s search for the man behind the Gospels. (bigthink.com)
Are we protecting the vulnerable—or suppressing dissent? (bigthink.com)
Why “high tolerance of ambiguity” should anchor your creative toolkit (bigthink.com)
JWST won’t find the very first stars, but a new telescope can (bigthink.com)
Daniel Dennett’s 4 rules for a good debate (bigthink.com)
Move your body, grow your brain: the science of hippocampal neurogenesis (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: Was the Universe “timeless” before the Big Bang? (bigthink.com)
From Messiaen to Radiohead: How great music uses prime numbers (bigthink.com)
From Gnosticism to Gospel Manga: 6 books to help you unpack the Bible and its history (bigthink.com)
Brian Cox: Why Earth’s orbit is the new Wild West and what that means for us all (bigthink.com)
A deep dive into Amazon robotics and AI (bigthink.com)
A quantum miracle enabled the formation of neutral atoms (bigthink.com)
Fringe or frontier: Is our current scientific paradigm still the best fit? (bigthink.com)
Why Substack will be the intellectual engine of the 21st century (bigthink.com)
JWST breaks its own record with new most distant galaxy MoM-z14 (bigthink.com)
The rise of the lanager: Why leadership and management can’t be split (bigthink.com)
The strange history of de-extinction began long before the science (bigthink.com)
Ask your boss: Can we have a “daydreaming workstation”? (bigthink.com)
Claims that “the Universe will end sooner than expected” are false (bigthink.com)
“Mystery humbles you”: Scott Derrickson on why skepticism and faith aren’t enemies (bigthink.com)
The David Aaker interview: “Trust is vital and fragile” (bigthink.com)
10 space pictures whose appearances will deceive you (bigthink.com)
Saṃvega: The urgent realization that you need a more meaningful life (bigthink.com)
Brian Cox: The quantum roots of reality (bigthink.com)
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Most people freeze in a crisis. Here’s why — and how to stop it (bigthink.com)
Curiosity as a survival skill to navigate change (bigthink.com)
The red color of Mars is mere inches deep (bigthink.com)
“Cosmic realism”: The secret ingredient to great books (bigthink.com)
The illusion of conscious AI (bigthink.com)
John Amaechi: The voice in your head is lying to you—here’s how to shut it down (bigthink.com)
Does physics truly have anything to say about consciousness? (bigthink.com)
The David Perell interview: How to resonate in the “age of engagement” (bigthink.com)
Is English a “killer” language — or is it dying? (bigthink.com)
Team esteem: How to create “spirals of increasing cooperation” (bigthink.com)
Astronomers just found the smallest galaxy ever (bigthink.com)
How curiosity rewires your brain for change (bigthink.com)
Brian Cox: The incomprehensible scales that rule the Universe (bigthink.com)
The Scott Woody Interview: The pros and cons of being “memoryless” (bigthink.com)
11 NASA astrophysics missions face risk of cancellation (bigthink.com)
Starts With A Bang podcast #117 – Gravitational waves and the Universe (bigthink.com)
Why Tolkien thought “sub-creation” was the secret to great fantasy and science fiction (bigthink.com)
Peter Singer: Animal suffering is human responsibility (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: Could dark energy be more negative than a cosmological constant? (bigthink.com)
The Empire reflects back: Rome’s lasting influence on British culture (bigthink.com)
The CIA method for making quick decisions under stress (bigthink.com)
Why I’m writing OUTLAST: a book about resilience (and hope) (bigthink.com)
The Universe is not symmetric (bigthink.com)
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