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“Business Adventures” by John Brooks was first published in 1969 and remains a must-read for all CEOs.
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
Architecture in the age of AI — argues professor Nayef Al-Rodhan — should embed philosophical inquiry in its transdisciplinary toolkit.
A-list lessons for better work-life collaboration — direct from the movie set.
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
NASA’s minivan-sized drone is scheduled to search for signs of life on Titan in 2034.
Jim Lee, President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics, tells us how his childhood obsession with Superman changed his life.
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The world’s “most produced living playwright” wins out over other contestants, including Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood.
Is it like a tiny ball — or what?
In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, there were only free protons and neutrons: no atomic nuclei. How did the first elements form from them?
Why would someone who has spent their entire career following orders become a great leader overnight?
The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, going back to the hot Big Bang. But was that truly the beginning, and is that truly its age?
“When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset.”
Big Think covered the 2012 study shortly after it was published. We are now correcting the record.
The new corporate landscape demands an approach to leadership based on empowering the “inner CEO.”
Looking back on our planet’s early history offers a new (and less crazy) meaning for the idea of a “flat Earth.”
Acting “little and often” has huge consequences and they’re not always good — but awareness yields solutions.
By developing skills like divergent thinking and collaboration in the workforce, creativity training has the potential to unlock revolutionary ideas.
Financial expert Paula Pant explains how you can afford anything, but not everything.
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When a whoopsie-daisy just won’t cut it.
Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.
In the expanding Universe, different ways of measuring its rate give incompatible answers. Nobel Laureate Adam Riess explains what it means.
How did complex systems emerge from chaos? Physicist Sean Carroll explains.
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Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
“I was incarcerated well before I was in prison and I was free before the gates of prison opened up and let me out.”
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A few key moments are linked to significant shifts in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Half a century ago, idealistic punks shook a fist at the status quo — and their legacy is a blueprint for modern leadership.
Creative people are better able to engage brain systems that don’t typically work together.
The replication crisis has debunked many of psychology’s fair-haired hypotheses, but for the marshmallow test, things have only become more interesting.