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As we look to larger cosmic scales, we get a broader view of the expansive cosmic forest, eventually revealing the grandest views of all.
Dominique Crenn, the only female chef in America with three Michelin stars, joins Big Think Live.
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The way we imagine and listen to melodies sheds light on imagination.
People admire complexity. Many attribute it to the work of superior minds, those with the skills or intelligence to wrangle challenging ideas into a workable—if not always comprehensible—whole. This esteem […]
The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don’t physically exist. Is he right?
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
Even after the first stars form, those overdense regions gravitationally attract matter and also merge. Here’s how they grow into galaxies.
Agile learning enables an organization to pivot quickly in response to changes in technology, economic conditions, market demand, and more.
Spicy foods are enjoyed the world over, but scientists don’t know why people partake in culinary masochism.
Architect and brand innovator Kevin Ervin Kelley sounds the alarm for workplace culture — and argues for a “big bang” collision of forms and shapes.
Here’s your gateway to enjoying the best of literature.
Physicists just can’t leave an incomplete theory alone; they try to repair it. When nature is kind, it can lead to a major breakthrough.
What we call “basic research” is actually the most cutting-edge. It underpins knowledge, and without it, technology does not come into being.
To break “analysis paralysis,” reduce the number of available options — and introduce an element of chance.
Explore how QBism reframes science by placing the observer at the heart of quantum reality.
Jokes so cheesy even French philosophers will love them.
Is the physical universe independent from us, or is it created by our minds, as suggested by scientist Robert Lanza?
We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.
Big Think’s co-founder and CEO, Victoria Montgomery Brown, offers six pieces of advice to founders in her forthcoming book.
Big Think co-founder and CEO Victoria Brown breaks down the process of transitioning from founder to boss in her new book, Digital Goddess.
A new study from Iceland confirms that a shorter workweek improves productivity.
From hellishly hot planets to water worlds, some distant planets are like nothing in our Solar System.
A spherical structure nearly one billion light-years wide has been spotted in the nearby Universe, dating all the way back to the Big Bang.
We confidently state that the Universe is known to be 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty of just 1%. Here’s how we know.
Research shows that psilocybin leads people away from materialism and toward transcendentalism. Apparently, mushrooms teach metaphysics.
How do you cope when joining a team shatters your confidence? Albert Camus and Harry Stack Sullivan can help.
Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is simply that it, and everything in it, exists. But what’s the reason why?
If the Universe is expanding, and the expansion is accelerating, what does that tell us about the cause of the expanding Universe?