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Voltaire’s wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
A game that challenges pedestrians to avoid detection by an AI could help train tomorrow’s self-driving cars.
Bertrand Russell shows us how to recognize emotional arguments smuggled into presumed statements of fact.
Cognitive systems famously posited by psychologist Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024) may hold the key to a more productive and focused work environment.
Big Think recently spoke with behavioral scientist and author Katy Milkman about what really motivates us and steers our behavior.
Predictive power has perverse, anti-democratic consequences. So be a good citizen and lie to election pollsters.
Each of us carries our own version of the Multiverse in our heads.
These scrolls are the only remaining intact library of ancient Rome — and they will crumble at a touch.
A small study suggests that IMST is as effective as medications or 30 minutes of aerobic exercise.
Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.
Misinterpreted data may be distorting Western predictions about the future of China’s economy.
More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.
Three reasons why a radically better future is more likely than we think.
Journaling helped Marcus Aurelius cultivate the emotional intelligence necessary to steer Rome through turbulent times.
How much can something change and still be the same thing?
Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
When faced with too many choices, many of us freeze — a phenomenon known as “analysis paralysis.” Why? Isn’t choice a good thing?
This is a perversion of justice.
Now that the DSM lists severe hoarding as a disorder apart from OCD, psychologists are asking what explains its prevalence.
Sometimes breaking a rule is the ethical thing to do.
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.
Meditation can put you in a wiser relationship with life.
You only have 4,000 weeks of life. Use them wisely.
Frank Herbert’s “Dune” refers to a religious desert people who are desperate for a savior to overthrow an evil empire. Sound familiar?
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Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain “rewire” itself by forming new neural pathways.
Nikolaas Tinbergen’s concept of “supernormal stimulus” explains why humans are attracted to a heightened version of reality.
Driven by a childhood marked by war and environmental devastation, Dyhia Belhabib developed an innovative technology to combat illegal fishing.