Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

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Scott McLeod

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Starts With A Bang

How has the James Webb Space Telescope changed cosmology?

More than two years after JWST began science operations, our Universe now looks very different. Here are its biggest science contributions.

Starts With A Bang

Ask Ethan: How does the Universe’s temperature change over time?

Today, the deepest depths of intergalactic space aren’t at absolute zero, but at a chill 2.73 K. How does that temperature change over time?

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The Present

“Alive and well”: Peter Singer on effective altruism after FTX

“The movement is much bigger than Sam Bankman-Fried, or any one person, no matter how wealthy,” philosopher Peter Singer told Big Think.

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High Culture

From fan to showrunner: How “House of the Dragon” creator Ryan Condal landed TV’s biggest job

Ryan Condal, who worked in pharmaceutical advertising before Hollywood, talks with Big Think about imposter syndrome, “precrastination,” and Westeros lore.

Starts With A Bang

The big idea of Grand Unified Theories of physics

If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at higher energies, something even grander happens?

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