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Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.
Monica Parker explains how creating opportunities for wonder can help foster a thriving, inclusive workplace.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
When we prepare for our plans to go wrong, we build the foundations for lasting profit.
Omer Bartov, who spent decades studying the unspeakable horrors of genocide, shares how his studies have impacted his own mental health.
Half a century ago, idealistic punks shook a fist at the status quo — and their legacy is a blueprint for modern leadership.
Anger and silence are the two worst reactions.
Survey data suggests that our bodily perceptions of love extend far beyond the heart.
Listening to some songs can cause a powerful physiological response known as “frisson.” What is it, and why does it happen?
Instead of walking a mile in someone’s shoes, try reading a chapter in their book.
Is LK-99 truly a room temperature superconductor? These 4 tests, none of which have yet been passed, will separate fact from fiction.
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
When you bring two fingers together, you can feel them “touch” each other. But are your atoms really touching, and if so, how?
“The movement is much bigger than Sam Bankman-Fried, or any one person, no matter how wealthy,” philosopher Peter Singer told Big Think.
Innovation training encourages the kind of creativity and problem solving that can lead to breakthroughs in business.
A clock, designed and built in Europe, ran hopelessly at the wrong rate when brought to America. The physics of gravity explains why.
“My dad asked me if I had been to tutoring and I lied… Then he showed me the tablet.”
Pugs are funny and cute, but that is because we have bred them intentionally to have debilitating genetic mutations. Is that ethical?
Realizing that matter and energy are quantized is important, but quantum particles aren’t the full story; quantum fields are needed, too.
Protons and neutrons are held together by the strong force: with 3 colors and 3 anticolors. So why are there only 8 gluons, and not 9?
Visionaries from Socrates to Steve Jobs have touted curiosity as an essential quality. Here’s how to supercharge your spirit of inquiry.
When your passion becomes your day job, sometimes the day job becomes a chore.
The clash of academic archaeology and what might be called folk archaeology comes into stark focus at Stonehenge.
A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.
And it’s much, much less expensive.
The researchers rebuked writers, scholars, and public figures for lazily perpetuating the notion of widespread gender bias in academic science.
“No matter how long you’ve been doing a job or how good people say you are, you need to care as if you’ve never done it before.”
What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.
Sound may be an overlooked tool for boosting well-being.