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3 challenges that AI integration presents in the workplace (bigthink.com)
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How far back in time can the naked eye see? (bigthink.com)
R.F. Kuang writes through doubt to find her strongest stories (bigthink.com)
95% of the universe is invisible. Here’s why that should fill us with wonder (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: Is there really a “dark side” of the Moon? (bigthink.com)
How large language models view our world (bigthink.com)
Einstein’s cryptids: The disputed, but possible, phenomena of the cosmos (bigthink.com)
The brilliance of boredom (bigthink.com)
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The strongest arguments for and against the existence of God (bigthink.com)
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Why wait for flying cars? Flying boats are already here. (bigthink.com)
The Engine of Progress (bigthink.com)
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The termination shock: Where AI progress meets reality (bigthink.com)
5 books that changed the world for the better (bigthink.com)
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The grim truth about the “good old days” (bigthink.com)
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Beyond completion rates: Engagement, impact, and ROI in L&D (bigthink.com)
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The spiritual practice of paying attention (bigthink.com)
Chef’s kiss: How to upscale from side hustle to sky’s-the-limit (bigthink.com)
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The roots of AI in Chinese philosophy — and what it could mean for business (bigthink.com)
The word for”wind”: How ancient civilizations explained an invisible force (bigthink.com)
5 ways to rebuild human connection at speed and scale (bigthink.com)
Jellyfish and bunny ear galaxies have cosmic consequences (bigthink.com)
How innovation reshaped human life in just a few generations (bigthink.com)
From “woke” to “traumatic”: How useful terms become empty buzzwords (bigthink.com)
How to lead from the liminal space where wisdom takes root (bigthink.com)
The decline and fall of stars in the Universe (bigthink.com)
The digital age’s reversion to pre-literate communication (bigthink.com)
The moment every civilization fears: the growth plateau (bigthink.com)
5 books that teach you how to die well — by living better (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: How can we better measure G, the gravitational constant? (bigthink.com)
Why forcing positivity after trauma doesn’t build resilience (bigthink.com)
The Civil War hero who stole a Confederate ship — and changed history (bigthink.com)
The enduring value of a notebook and “long thinking” (bigthink.com)
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The next great leap in evolution may lie beyond Earth (bigthink.com)
What’s more real: time itself, or your perception of it? (bigthink.com)
Why skill plateaus are inevitable – and how to push past them (bigthink.com)
America already has the tools to heal division — we just need to relearn how to use them (bigthink.com)
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The devious trick behind the most sensational science headlines (bigthink.com)
How chance and error shaped every living being on Earth (bigthink.com)
How a scientific mistake from the 1970s derailed Mars exploration (bigthink.com)
How to be ambitious without losing your soul (bigthink.com)
Astronomy’s first gap-clearing planet fills in our “missing link” (bigthink.com)
Silicon Oasis? How a northern English tech startup went global (bigthink.com)
How the “meter” came to be exactly one meter long (bigthink.com)
Starts With A Bang podcast #123 – Alien physics (bigthink.com)
The science of consciousness is solving the biggest illusion in our universe (bigthink.com)
How Rainn Wilson discovered sacredness (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: Can Weber bars detect gravitational waves? (bigthink.com)
Why general relativity would’ve been discovered without Einstein (bigthink.com)
Plato meets game theory: How Schelling points explain the power of great books (bigthink.com)
Why desire — not resilience — leads to longevity (bigthink.com)
Our first terraforming goal should be the Moon, not Mars (bigthink.com)
The two types of jokes everyone tells (bigthink.com)
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How the myth of destiny distorts our decisions (bigthink.com)
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Is the universe conscious? Panpsychism, religion, and the modern search for meaning (bigthink.com)
How the world’s first business bestseller transformed the world (bigthink.com)
How to understand Einstein’s relativity without math (bigthink.com)
Logic Theorist: The program that rewrote the foundations of mathematics (bigthink.com)
We doubled human lifespans in the last 200 years. Can we do it again? (bigthink.com)
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What Steve Jobs learned from Shakespeare’s King Lear (bigthink.com)
The Red Spider Nebula gets its JWST glow-up (bigthink.com)
The truth of Ancient Rome hides under its myth of decadence (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: Could evolving dark energy lead to a Big Crunch? (bigthink.com)
“The Devil Is a Southpaw”: A novel by Brandon Hobson (bigthink.com)
A cure for toxic work (bigthink.com)
Groupthink in science isn’t a problem; it’s a myth (bigthink.com)
“The Chinese Job”: Spain’s wild 1580s plan to conquer the world — via Beijing (bigthink.com)
If humans went extinct, could we re-evolve? (bigthink.com)
Can you measure love? 3 experts discuss (bigthink.com)
How facing adversity can help you live a deeper, more meaningful life (bigthink.com)
Resilience is overrated: Unlock the real secret to business longevity (bigthink.com)
Why aliens might not “speak physics” the same way we do (bigthink.com)
Every era believes it is enlightened. Old books teach us otherwise. (bigthink.com)
How accepting impermanence can end the struggle to “fix” your life (bigthink.com)
America’s path to maritime leadership is clear — but it demands urgency (bigthink.com)
Josh Bersin: The Secrets of Crafting Enduring Organizations (bigthink.com)
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Macroscopes help us see the invisible connections that tie our world together (bigthink.com)
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Where does the expanding Universe begin? (bigthink.com)
How your cognitive biases lead to terrible investing behaviors (bigthink.com)
Dark AI is fueling cybercrime — and accelerating the cybersecurity arms race (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: Why couldn’t the Universe have expanded forever? (bigthink.com)
Why your best ideas come after your worst (bigthink.com)
Every tree, star, and cloud is a compass — If you know how to read it (bigthink.com)
Will AI save us or destroy us? (bigthink.com)
5 undeniable, truthful facts about dark matter (bigthink.com)
6 Japanese concepts you need to know, according to Marie Kondo (bigthink.com)
More than a game: How play helps wire our social brains (bigthink.com)
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A million qubits? This quantum advisor isn’t buying it. (bigthink.com)
We still don’t know how “hot” the hot Big Bang was (bigthink.com)
What sea slugs can teach us about the nature of consciousness (bigthink.com)
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The 37% rule: How many people should you date before settling down? (bigthink.com)
The next revolution in biology isn’t reading life’s code — it’s writing it (bigthink.com)
Even AI is self-censoring. Here’s why that matters. (bigthink.com)
Why 2025 is the single most pivotal year in our lifetime (bigthink.com)
The West struggles to evaluate threats. Here’s how it can get better. (bigthink.com)
5 ways immersion in art can boost your work-life happiness (bigthink.com)
Is our first “galaxy-quasar hybrid” also a Little Red Dot? (bigthink.com)
How neuroscience is rewriting the art of war (bigthink.com)
Are we blinded by our desire to find extraterrestrial life? (bigthink.com)
The ancient origins of partnering and romantic love (bigthink.com)
Seaflooding: How we could engineer the next Mediterranean (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: Is the Hubble tension the same thing as dark energy? (bigthink.com)
Yes, reductionism can explain everything in the whole Universe (bigthink.com)
Sean Carroll: Can we ever escape the logic of a clockwork universe? (bigthink.com)
Lessons from two of the greatest investors of all time (bigthink.com)
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The “intoxication thesis”: The evolutionary benefits of getting drunk (bigthink.com)
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The true cost of “solar power at night” with Reflect Orbital (bigthink.com)
5 horrifying stories that double as lessons in philosophy (bigthink.com)
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“All That We See or Seem”: A novel by Ken Liu (bigthink.com)
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Cosmic inflation’s biggest criticisms can’t undermine its success (bigthink.com)
The world’s largest library of lies has good news about fake news (bigthink.com)
This research team studies gratitude. Here’s what they’ve found. (bigthink.com)
Are young workers canaries in the AI coal mine? (bigthink.com)
How to see shooting stars from Halley’s comet this October (bigthink.com)
Starts With A Bang podcast #122 – Galaxy evolution and JWST (bigthink.com)
Why America’s veneration of the Constitution may ultimately break it (bigthink.com)
The alarm bells are sounding for young men. Will we listen? (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: How many generations of stars came before the Sun? (bigthink.com)
Mapped: If America were 100 people, this is what they’d believe (bigthink.com)
If you want to be miserable, then spend your money like this (bigthink.com)
Lawrence Wright: Fiction goes where reporting cannot follow (bigthink.com)
The great AI divide: Europe vs. Silicon Valley (bigthink.com)
400 years later, astronomers finally understand Saturn’s rings (bigthink.com)
Jesse Eisenberg: How to rewire your anxiety into authenticity (bigthink.com)
The bias that is holding AI back (bigthink.com)
How humans create reality through language and beliefs (bigthink.com)
Macroscopic quantum tunneling wins 2025’s Nobel Prize in physics (bigthink.com)
Why 95% of AI rollouts fail and what L&D leaders can do about it (bigthink.com)
A fresh take on the Buffett-Munger axis of genius (bigthink.com)
AI vs. AI: The upcoming arms race against disinformation online (bigthink.com)
The China factor in the great progression of the next 25 years (bigthink.com)
The 4 essential ingredients for “new CEO” success (bigthink.com)
The search for alien life must heed this lesson from Stephen King (bigthink.com)
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How censorship turns ordinary men into martyrs (bigthink.com)
Why “outrageous optimism” is your startup super-skill (bigthink.com)
COSMOS-Web unveils JWST’s newest gravitational lenses (bigthink.com)
Bessel van der Kolk: Trauma isn’t the event, it’s the response (bigthink.com)
Ask Ethan: How and when will the Universe die? (bigthink.com)
The haunted history of the ghost ship Dash (bigthink.com)
Brian Cox: The bizarre history of black holes (bigthink.com)
The beauty of writing in public (bigthink.com)
What do distant observers see when they look at Earth? (bigthink.com)
The sci-fi hypothesis that explains why you click with certain people (bigthink.com)
How REM sleep unlocks human function (bigthink.com)
Thousands of NASA employees to bid farewell to the NASA they knew (bigthink.com)
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5 great thinkers who rejected their own ideas (bigthink.com)
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Why your AI strategy needs guidance from an 82-year-old computer (bigthink.com)
The 5 biggest mysteries about the origin of our Universe (bigthink.com)
Why the American dream no longer moves upward (bigthink.com)
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When your father is a magician, what do you believe? (bigthink.com)
David Kipping on how the search for alien life is gaining credibility (bigthink.com)
For the pharaohs, ruling Ancient Egypt meant mastering the Nile (bigthink.com)
Would you rather be an absurdist or an existentialist? Here’s the difference between the two. (bigthink.com)
How to train your nervous system for optimal performance (bigthink.com)
Meet the philosopher outsmarting me since kindergarten (bigthink.com)
Even before the Big Bang, space wasn’t truly empty (bigthink.com)
Experts from 4 different fields define consciousness (bigthink.com)
Are you an effective trailblazer? (bigthink.com)
The strongest evidence for a Universe before the Big Bang (bigthink.com)
Why the AI “megasystem problem” needs our attention (bigthink.com)
Why do only humans weep? The evolutionary puzzle of crying. (bigthink.com)
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The Big Bang doesn’t mean what it used to (bigthink.com)
The frontline manager effect: Why some teams thrive while others burn out (bigthink.com)
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5 brilliant books to demystify the brain (bigthink.com)
The 4 hidden forces underneath every argument (bigthink.com)
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One of the most quoted lines in philosophy is completely misused and misunderstood (bigthink.com)
A postcard from the frontlines of China’s tech boom (bigthink.com)
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The deep mathematics of why 10² 11² 12² 13² 14² (bigthink.com)
Biosignatures? Why organics on Mars don’t necessarily signal life (bigthink.com)
Stress is inevitable, but suffering isn’t. 3 experts explain. (bigthink.com)
LIGO’s 10th anniversary gift confirms Hawking’s theorem (bigthink.com)
Science’s answer to the ultimate question: Where do we come from? (bigthink.com)
Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: How to handle disruption without hitting an iceberg (bigthink.com)
Neuroscience shows that speed reading is bullshit (bigthink.com)
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Cosmism: The 19th-century movement to reach space and immortality (bigthink.com)
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One neuroscientist’s deep dive into perception and reality (bigthink.com)
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5.3 million years ago, the world’s largest flood refilled the Mediterranean (bigthink.com)
Michio Kaku: Why we don’t even rank on the Kardashev scale (bigthink.com)
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NASA to needlessly kill Juno mission to Jupiter this month (bigthink.com)
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When does self-discipline become virtue? (bigthink.com)
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How taming fire made us human (bigthink.com)
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How a dime-sized bone rewrote the story of human evolution (bigthink.com)
Sam Harris: Experience emotions without being consumed by them (bigthink.com)
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