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Former spacewalker Mike Massimino tells Big Think how NASA missions shaped great leaders.
Big Think spoke with AI expert Nick Jennings about the future of regulating fast-evolving AI.
Who — or what — really controls your mind?
Big Think spoke with animator and animation historian Tom Sito about the cyclical evolution of animation.
There are four money personality types. Which are you?
Adrie Kusserow, an anthropologist and scholar of Buddhism, shares how her study of the religion and its history has reshaped her view of the world — and herself.
Will you die when your body dies?
Lockdowns moved the burden of COVID from the at-risk elderly to the less-at-risk young. Does this sacrifice merit compensation?
Mating, monogamy, and maximizing your sexual potential explained by 3 sex experts.
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His career helped define humanity’s place in the world by bringing us “a little closer” to our ape relatives.
Actor and science communicator Alan Alda shares his three rules of three for effective and empathic communication.
The second law of thermodynamics tells us that entropy always increases. But that doesn’t mean it was zero at the start of the Big Bang.
Katie Kermode — a memory athlete with four world records — tells Big Think about her unique spin on an ancient technique to memorize unfathomably long lists of information.
When we prepare for our plans to go wrong, we build the foundations for lasting profit.
Research consistently points to a set of leadership skills that are high-impact, difficult to develop, and not easily replicated by technology.
The creative force behind The Vampire Diaries explains how she learned to deal with her insecurities.
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How to juggle while walking a tightrope — at work.
With ~400 billion stars in the Milky Way and 6-20 trillion galaxies overall, that makes for a lot of stars. But not as many as you’d think.
You’ve certainly seen the paintings — but they don’t depict what you think they do. Benjamin Moser discusses with Big Think.
“If we find just one other example of biology out there, then life is not an accident.”
Volcanologists warn that magma-filled vents evolve over time, leading to an underestimation of the number that might erupt — especially those capable of the biggest explosions
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.”
Here are the signs that you inherited “money anxiety” from your parents.
We often assume that movement means progress and that doing something is better than doing nothing. That is often not true.
Many capabilities contribute to effective change leadership, but four stand out as vitally important at a macro level.
Financial expert Paula Pant explains how you can afford anything, but not everything.
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Kids are fragile. They should trust their feelings. The world is a battle between good and evil. We should stop repeating these untruths.
Elastic thinking can reveal the assumptions that hamstring our ability to solve seemingly intractable problems.
AI is both a tool and a catalyst — and the key to successful integration is to rewrite your rule book and tinker.