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In this excerpt from “Agents of Change,” Christina Hillsberg tells the story of Martha “Marti” Peterson, the first female case officer stationed in Soviet Moscow.
To be culturally intelligent, you must be curious and open-minded — and the benefits can be transformative.
Here in 2025, many of us claim to come to our own conclusions by doing our own research. Here’s why we’re mostly deluding ourselves.
As the closest icy ocean world to
Earth, Ceres may be a promising candidate in the search for signs of ancient life.
Snorre Kjesbu — SVP & GM of Cisco’s Employee Experience group — has a bold vision for the future of human interaction.
Massive galaxy cluster Abell S1063, 4.5 billion light-years away, bends and distorts the space nearby. Here’s what a JWST deep field shows.
Is the Universe’s expansion rate 67 km/s/Mpc, 73 km/s/Mpc, or somewhere in between? The Hubble tension is real and not so easy to resolve.
In “The Gift of Not Belonging,” Rami Kaminski explains why group consensus may hinder the original thinkers who help advance society.
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The ANITA experiment found cosmic rays shooting out of Antarctica. One interpretation claims “parallel Universes,” but is that right?
Different methods of measuring the Universe’s expansion rate yield high-precision, incompatible answers. But is the problem robustly real?
“The rise of the internet brought about similar fears, yet it ultimately made learning richer and more accessible.”
With “Karla’s Choice,” Nick Harkaway had an impossible mission: maintain his father’s legacy while staying true to his voice.
The corporate world is no cake walk — as a leader you need a framework that can equip you for the cross-pressures.
Launched in March, the PUNCH mission has viewed two incredible coronal mass ejections, tracking them farther from the Sun than ever before.
Breaking barriers: seamless learning across languages and platforms.
Annie Duke, a poker champion turned decision scientist, talks with Big Think about how to choose well under uncertainty.
Leaders may not realize it — they’re not just being watched, they’re being interpreted, filtered, and judged, frame by frame.
The tiniest galaxies of all are the most severely dominated by dark matter. Could black holes be the cause of the extra gravity instead?
As Beijing encroaches on the territory of the Himalayan kingdom, its ultimate aim is leverage over India.
A few physical quantities, in all laboratory experiments, are always conserved: including energy. But for the entire Universe? Not so much.
For his new book, “The Ghost Lab,” Matt Hongoltz-Hetling spent time with paranormal investigators to understand their relationship with science and society.
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If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can’t do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
If happiness is an absolute good, would 1 billion slightly happy people be better than 1 million incredibly happy people?
Viewing Uranus’s largest moons with Hubble, astronomers hoped to find darkening on the trailing side. They found the exact opposite instead.
The cofounders of think tank RethinkX are convinced that humanity is undergoing civilizational phase change.