The late philosopher suggested adding a couple of “Occam’s heuristics” to your critical thinking toolbox.
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To understand others, you need to see past their fleeting emotions. You must perceive who they are as people.
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Gods and angels have been replaced with hi-tech extraterrestrials.
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Susannah Fox, former chief technology officer for the HHS, explains how technology has empowered us to help fill in the cracks of the healthcare system.
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Predicted way back in the 1960s, the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 completed the Standard Model. Here’s why it remains fascinating.
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As with any “big idea” progress means a lot of different things to different people and not everyone comes into the discussion with the same priors. Some experts are primarily focused on material progress while others emphasize the importance of moral progress. So to start the discussion, we asked each expert to define the term as they see it from their specific vantage point.
“The promise of the Human Genome Project has finally arrived.”
The stench of death is actually fairly pleasant.
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Benjamin Oakes — CEO of buzz-worthy biotech company Scribe Therapeutics — joins Big Think for a chat about innovation, human endeavor, and more.
First derived by Emmy Noether, for every symmetry a theory possesses, there’s an associated conserved quantity. Here’s the profound link.
From unexplained tracks in a balloon-borne experiment to cosmic rays on Earth, the unstable muon was particle physics’ biggest surprise.
On Earth, microbial growth is common in lava tubes no matter the location and climate, whether it’s ice-volcano interactions in Iceland or hot, sand-floored lava tubes in Saudi Arabia.
Science fiction movies capture a classic human flaw: getting the future mostly wrong.
“We are not our grandparents. It’s time to start thinking differently,” journalist Annie Jacobsen told Big Think.
A new method of mapping migration factors in erratic movements and changing climate.