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Mixed messages and competing interests have left college students feeling lost and stressed.
Join the lauded author of Range in conversation with best-selling author and poker pro Maria Konnikova!
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What speech is harmful, how do we know, and what do we do if we find out?
When does a healthy desire for wealth morph into greed? And how can we stop it?
Problem-solving skills are in demand. Every job posting lists them under must-have qualifications, and every job candidate claims to possess them, par excellence. Young entrepreneurs make solutions to social and […]
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 […]
Why do we deprive students of the historical and cultural context of science?
The visual languages of comics and graphic novels are great exercise for developing brains.
Radical thinker Rutger Bregman paints a new, more beautiful portrait of humanity.
Fear of being scammed can lead us to make decisions that go against our values and goals — both as individuals and as a society.
A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet.
NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller will be at Big Think's studio on May 16th to answer YOUR questions! Here's all you need to know to submit your science-related inquiries.
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The physicist was both a gentleman and scholar.
From 260-year-old ciphers to the most recent Zodiac Killer solution, these unbreakable codes just needed time.
When the COVID-19 crisis is over, how will education have changed? Will we have made the most of this moment?
Though gloomy and dense, Russian literature is hauntingly beautiful, offering a relentlessly persistent inquiry into the human experience.
As a doctor, I am reminded every day of the fragility of the human body, how closely mortality lurks just around the corner.
The Big Bang started it all. And then we realized there was more. Of all the questions humanity has ever pondered, perhaps the most profound is, “where did all of this […]
Never has the bar to entry been so low and the recognized benefits so high.
In his new book, "American Rule," Jared Yates Sexton hopes to overturn a centuries-long myth.
While shuffling off their mortal coils, these giants of thought had some parting words.
For many, 2020 will not be remembered as a “best of” much. We don’t need to repeat the reasons here; it’s sufficient to point out that a 100-year pandemic was […]
Psychedelics are going mainstream. Here's your reading list.
There’s a lot left to understand, ponder, and investigate. And there always will be. For hundreds of thousands of years — nearly all of human history — we had no definitive answers to some of […]
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Forgetting them, at any step, can lead to unscientific conclusions. No one, not even the smartest among us, were competent scientists from the outset. The concept of science is simple […]
We've known this virus was coming. We just didn't do anything about it.