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Big Think co-founder and CEO Victoria Brown breaks down the process of transitioning from founder to boss in her new book, Digital Goddess.
The highest-energy particles of all come from space, not human-made colliders. When it comes to the most energetic particle collisions of all, you might think that the Large Hadron Collider […]
Due to deteriorating health, all Beethoven left behind for his final symphony were some musical sketches.
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and best-selling author Charles Duhigg as he interviews Victoria Montgomery Brown, co-founder and CEO of Big Think.
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What do communist dictators Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong have in common with U.S. Presidents like John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan? Hint: It’s the same thing they have in […]
What would happen if you tripled the US population? Matthew Yglesias and moderator Charles Duhigg explore the idea on Big Think Live.
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Big Think’s co-founder and CEO, Victoria Montgomery Brown, offers six pieces of advice to founders in her forthcoming book.
After more than two decades of precision measurements, we’ve now reached the “gold standard” for how the pieces don’t fit.
As bad as this sounds, a new essay suggests that we live in a surprisingly egalitarian age.
The more you like, follow and share, the faster you find yourself moving in that political direction.
China’s dominance of the rare earth metal industry is part of its overall geopolitical strategy.
Or is ‘new space’ created in between the gaps of the ‘old’ space? It’s been almost 100 years since humanity first reached a revolutionary conclusion about our Universe: space itself doesn’t […]
Jean Paul Sartre summed up the existentialist idea of “bad faith” through a waiter who acted a bit too much like a waiter.
Despite the recent headlines, it’s an extraordinarily unlikely proposition. Have you ever wondered, if it were possible to travel through space straight ahead as quickly as you could imagine, if […]
Evolutionary success is not about the number of one’s children, but one’s grandchildren: the children need to survive and pass on their genes.
Even 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang, we can reconstruct the first 3 minutes. About 100 years ago, we began to truly understand the nature of the Universe for the […]
New studies stretch the boundaries of physics, achieving quantum entanglement in larger systems.
After the unrelenting negativity of 2020, we may need a refresher on the benefits of a positive affect.
Hunter-gatherers probably had more spare time than you.
A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet.
The ‘final parsec problem’ is still a mystery for astronomers. When it comes to black holes in the Universe, we know there are at least two major types. There are […]
A cartogram makes it easy to compare regional and national GDPs at a glance.
The pandemic has many people questioning whether they ever want to go back to the office.
What qualifies someone for the top position in American government?
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Research reveals a new evolutionary feature that separates humans from other primates.
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In the future, you might voluntarily share your social media data with your psychiatrist to inform a more accurate diagnosis.
A new study found that personality growth in young adults predicted career benefits such as income, degree attainment, and job satisfaction.