Acclaimed writer Mauro Javier Cárdenas used AI in his latest work to surprising effect.
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Can ChatGPT help you power through writer’s block?
Science writer George Musser on the unsung role of friendship in science’s biggest discoveries.
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“Block. It puts some writers down for months. It puts some writers down for life.”
The writer’s tragic death at age 46 has led many to view him as a tortured artist. Here’s why this label is reductive.
Carrie Berk reveals how she transformed her struggle with anxiety and internet fame by changing her perception and finding her true voice as a writer.
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Freethink asks three different kinds of experts to answer this question.
Want to write a time-travel story? Do so at your own risk.
The researchers rebuked writers, scholars, and public figures for lazily perpetuating the notion of widespread gender bias in academic science.
Coleman Hughes advocates for a colorblind America, presenting compelling arguments in favor of treating all individuals without regard to race.
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What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.
Ryan Condal, who worked in pharmaceutical advertising before Hollywood, talks with Big Think about imposter syndrome, “precrastination,” and Westeros lore.
“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?”
A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Ignoring the legacy of William Shakespeare is difficult for any writer, let alone one as quintessentially English as “Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien.
The world’s “most produced living playwright” wins out over other contestants, including Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood.
When done right, dark humor can help us face inconvenient truths and question stifling social conventions.
Actor, author, and director Jesse Eisenberg demystifies the role of anxiety and self-doubt in leadership.
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A thesaurus isn’t to find big and fancy words, but a resource to help you find your rhythm.
To reap the benefits of AI technologies, businesses must keep humans in the driving seat.
Big Think guest writer Rory Stewart — former UK Secretary of State for International Development and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast — made a profound discovery about leadership while working with GiveDirectly.
Voyage into the lawless world of experimental literature.
Art criticism is inherently subjective. Still, many critics have tried to make a case for why some of the world’s most celebrated books are in fact terribly written.
Soviet censorship was thorough yet fallible.
With the right prompts, large language models can produce quality writing — and make us question the limits of human creativity.
Step back from the AI maelstrom and explore Lem’s “Summa Technologiae” for a detached look at technology’s role in human evolution.
A simple semantic device — invented by a forgotten senator — can help us break “the curse of knowledge.”
“The Man in the High Castle” may be the most beloved alternate history book, but it is not the most historically accurate.
The old linear job model is obsolete. Our post-pandemic work lives are defined by options and flexibility.