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The number of people with whom we interact is highest around 40, but then things change substantially after that.

A retraction regarding a May 6, 2019 article entitled “Are these 100 people killing the planet?”

Mind Bank Ai is the newest entrant in an ambitious idea: using AI to create a kind of immortality.

Even a year like 2020 couldn’t prepare Americans for the first few weeks of 2021. The year’s opening act was a siege on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of […]

This everyday electrical phenomenon had no widely accepted scientific explanation — perhaps, until now.

Math offers good evidence that humans can solve any problem — as long as there’s money in it.

Do your kids a favor and give them the gift of philosophy this Christmas.

Once science operations begin for James Webb, we’ll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here’s what everyone should know.

We could even benefit from more whataboutisms — if they’re used properly.

We have arrived: Big Think’s most popular video of 2019 tells us light exists outside of time.

There are a few possible solutions to the problem of interstellar travel, but they largely remain within the realm of science fiction.

If we were born trillions of years in the future, could we even figure out our cosmic history?

Will all robots think like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg?

Many people perceive the struggle to understand our Universe as a battle between science and God. But this is a false dichotomy.

IceCube just found an active galaxy in the nearby Universe, 47 million light-years away, through its neutrino emissions: a cosmic first.

Join Big Think Live for a discussion with human rights advocate and best-selling author Shaka Senghor. Learn how the COVID-19 outbreak is affecting the prison population and why it has […]

How can you use new tools, techniques, and technologies to rethink your personal productivity and enhance your future self?

The sudden prevalence of an artery in the forearm is evidence that we’re still very much a work in progress.

There’s a big difference between the notions of ‘false vacuum’ and ‘true vacuum’ states. Here’s why we don’t want to live in the former.

Restflix has over 20 personalized channels for optimal sleep.

Big Think has launched a line of apparel and goods that celebrate the life and work of four geniuses.

Big Think’s eighth most popular video of the year reveals what the real future of war could look like.

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No. But Buddhism and quantum mechanics have much to teach each other.

At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?

If something is “true,” it needs to be shown to work in the real world.

Next on Big Think’s 2019 top 10 countdown, black holes may give us a glimpse of the underlying nature of reality.

The closest star system to Earth, just over 4 light-years away, has three stars and at least one Earth-sized planet. Is it time to go there?

Next up on the top 10 countdown, Big Think’s sixth most popular video illustrates the mental fireworks of a psychedelic experience.

Pencil Kings will guide you from beginner to mastery with industry-leading teachers from Marvel and DreamWorks.