Nassim Taleb’s theories on unpredictable events can inform the MLB Draft’s selection process.
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Students may need to sleep on a lesson before they are able to fully comprehend and apply the new information they’ve learned.
A “speculative” theory no more; it’s had four of them confirmed. “Scientific ideas should be simple, explanatory, predictive. The inflationary multiverse as currently understood appears to have none of those […]
Businesses that make their employees feel young for their age get more out of their workforce.
After reading Mike Slosberg’s gripping page-turner, you will never again view the idealistic process of adoption in quite the same light.
Players are starting to drop out of eSports — complaining of crippling injuries that have halted their careers, which begs the question if eSports needs to reform to support these veterans.
What would you do? Imagine you’re a politically conservative, devoutly religious art dealer fleeing your war-torn country when you suddenly see art radically unlike anything you’ve seen before. Do you stay the course or gamble on this next “big thing”? Now add the sudden death of your pregnant young wife, which leaves you with five children under the age of nine whose futures now depend entirely on your choices. Do you roll the dice with your life and theirs? If you’re Paul Durand-Ruel and that artist is Claude Monet, the original Impressionist, you don’t just make that bet; you go “all in” — staking your family’s fortunes to those of a family of revolutionary artists. The exhibition Discovering the Impressionists: Paul Durand-Ruel and the New Painting, currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, goes “all in” with Durand-Ruel’s gamble and pays off big with a stirring tale of personal courage and art history in the making.
Earth Day words of wisdom from the great Scottish-American environmentalist John Muir, excerpted from his 1901 book Our Natural Parks.
Science and all of society benefit from an informed and knowledgeable public, yet not enough academics are recognized by scientific bodies for their contributions to popular writing.
Author and marketing consultant Dorie Clark explains the basic tenets of thought leadership.
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Brands this. Brands that. Brands on Twitter. Brands on Facebook. The new age of brand storytelling isn’t going away anytime soon. The least companies can do is spare us the air of artificiality.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg recently implied that the company’s success with providing marketing tools for small-to-medium businesses could precede an eventual shift toward competition with TV advertising.
The hope that humans can use wisdom and technology to prevent a bleak future for life on Earth is overly optimistic. It falsely presumes that we can use wisdom to overcome instincts.
If Scrooge gave away just a few pennies, he would suffer a big loss of well-being; for Mother Teresa to suffer a comparable loss she would have to give until she were nearly penniless.
Researchers think they may have found a way to make people more empathetic. Perhaps one day in the future we’ll be able to prescribe “kindness” pills.
Even the dead stars still shine today, and will for a long time. But they, too, will fade to black. “As the blackness of the night recedes so does the […]
Could humans someday live to be 1,000 years old? Life extension and radical longevity are rising topics of conversation among futurist circles… and wealthy tech entrepreneurs are listening.
The value locked away inside asteroids is enough to raise the world economic ceiling to unbelievable heights.
As Sesame Street Head Writer Joey Mazzarino notes, every parent should have a puppet. It’s important for moms and dads to be unafraid of sometimes being silly.
“You get more joy out of the giving to others, and should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give.”
A new book explains why individual humans are notoriously bad at assessing how others perceive them.
With three spatial dimensions, the possibilities are tremendous. But only one answer fits what we see. “Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you […]
Today’s the 78th anniversary of the bombing of Guernica. The only reason you probably don’t know that already is because this isn’t the event’s 75th or 100th anniversary, because we as a society value some numbers over others.
Writing is a recent innovation in the history of human evolution. So, how then is it that our brains organize this skill?
If you wondered why Missy Elliot performed at this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, it may be because the NFL knew something about the musical tastes of its fan base, average age 44.
In this Big Think+ preview, Dr. Tony Coles introduces the concept of “service leadership” first developed in 1970 by Robert K. Greenleaf.
A recent study finds that real-world stereotypes continue to exist in virtual worlds.
Like L. Ron Hubbard knew, the veneer of celebrity casts such a bright light that the details are obscured. Perhaps that’s why we call them “stars.” The closer you get, the harder to observe the shadows being cast.
Is “nudge theory” Big Brother running our lives, or just the medicine we need?
Beating a polygraph test is as simple as understanding its psychological facets and turning them in your favor.