It’s hard to know what other people know. But it’s not impossible.
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Taking the floor is all about connecting authentically with your audience. Here’s how.
Would you want to live in any of these places?
Survivorship bias occurs when we fail to consider how data was collected. To combat this, search for the “silent evidence.”
People who rate themselves as highly knowledgeable about cats are more likely to interact with cats in ways they don’t like.
Admitting that we know little about our future selves can radically improve our decision-making.
ChatGPT’s capabilities are astonishing.
Your expectations form the way you experience the world.
The A.I. system could improve the lives of commercially raised pigs.
Lots of people have seen lots of bizarre events and phenomena that defy our conventional experience. But is there a scientific explanation?
If the “self” is not real, then we are slaves to a billiard ball universe, trapped in a nihilistic nightmare in which we cannot change our fate.
Is Eliezer Yudkowsky the same false prophet that Paul Ehrlich was?
Most popular songs are about love and heartache. But some great songs — albeit underrated and perhaps a bit weird — are about the cities we love.
Origin of life studies have always focused on a set of strict environments that could give rise to life. Ante-life opens new possibilities.
If you lost your religion, it might be because the internet and social media are having a secularizing effect on American society.
One theory for catatonia is that it is similar to an animal’s “death feint.”
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
Two of the answers add a dimension to physics that doesn’t belong there. Maybe we could call it “astrotheology.”
In hospice care and hospitals, we prioritize those with more life to live over those who are terminally ill. What is that, if not prejudice?
Just being a pessimist, cynic, or apathetic doesn’t make you a nihilist.
It is wrong to think that these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.
The replication crisis has debunked many of psychology’s fair-haired hypotheses, but for the marshmallow test, things have only become more interesting.
Spend well, save well, live well.
Is there an ultimate answer to the age-old question?
Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom. The ‘active’ sleep phases look very much like REM.
Scientists can make substantial progress without fully understanding exactly what they’re doing.
Ryan Condal, who worked in pharmaceutical advertising before Hollywood, talks with Big Think about imposter syndrome, “precrastination,” and Westeros lore.
You don’t have to be an emperor to apply these rules to daily living.
If the Universe is expanding, and the expansion is accelerating, what does that tell us about the cause of the expanding Universe?
Stoicism is popular today but often misunderstood and misapplied. In fact, a naive interpretation of Stoicism is damaging to your well-being.