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What would you do differently if you listened to your true desires?
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Humanity can avoid catastrophe — if we look beyond our blinkered present.
Spaceguard shows that we can manage risks to the extinction of humanity — if only we put our mind to it.
Sight helps you see a room, but interoception lets you sense it from inside your own body.
Always look on the bright side of death.
The initial goal of AI was to create machines that think like humans. But that is not what happened at all.
Former spacewalker Mike Massimino tells Big Think how NASA missions shaped great leaders.
From “The Castle of Otranto” to “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, these books changed the literary landscape.
Forget about Tinkerbell.
Many of the furniture giant’s products are named after Swedish locations. Not everyone is happy about that.
We don’t know when or how music was originally invented, but we can now track its evolution across space and time thanks to the Global Jukebox.
Benjamin Oakes — CEO of buzz-worthy biotech company Scribe Therapeutics — joins Big Think for a chat about innovation, human endeavor, and more.
In the spirit of the 1969 moon landing, we now have a golden opportunity to pursue “nondisruptive” creative solutions.
After almost a century in print, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” still has lessons to teach us.
Life in the supremely vast cosmos is incredibly rare. We need a new vision for our living planet and for ourselves.
Brands like BMW, Walmart, and IBM are seeing big wins from the use of gamification in corporate training. Here’s how.
In just 11 months, this lab can grow a memorial diamond from the ashes of a loved one. Can they change how we cope with loss?
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China has always been one of the world’s wealthiest nations, but Chinese wealth looks different across the country’s eventful history.
Local researchers identify a striking rainbow-colored fairy wrasse found off the coast of the Maldives as a fish species all its own.
Dive into five philosophical schools that have faded into obscurity but still whisper through the ages.
Moral panics about the content of children’s cartoons and other forms of entertainment have a long history.
“Oosouji” or “big cleaning” is much more than a chance to tidy up.
A new study shows that beauty standards affect whether or not accusers are believed.
In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.
Alli Webb, co-founder of Drybar, has a message for up-and-coming leaders: Embrace the mess!
2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.
To be successful at bonsai cultivation, you must acquire the perseverance and unconditional kindness normally reserved for devout monks.
In hell, we assume a position of moral superiority, looking down over the sinners and the poor decisions that led them to this wretched place. In heaven, Dante is looking down upon us.