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What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.

Big Think recently spoke with Nick Bostrom about how humans might find fulfillment in a post-scarcity world.

Who’s afraid of utopia? AI doubters have cold feet. History can warm them.

Could anyone still meet the Theoretical Minimum?

How can you maximize the amount of love and happiness in your life? One of history’s greatest scientists found the answer: with math.

Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?

Ever since the start of the hot Big Bang, time ticks forward as the Universe expands. But could time ever run backward, instead?

The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here’s how that’s possible.

“We are biologically programmed to have empathy. It’s something we can’t suppress.”

The sonnenrad is a Heathen symbol composed of 12 repeated runes.

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

It’s not a gambit. It’s not fraud. It’s not driven by opinion, prejudice, or bias. It’s not unchallengeable. And it’s more than facts alone.

In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.

Reading between the lines of Dorothy’s adventure to the Emerald City.

Two parts of our Universe that seem to be unavoidable are dark matter and dark energy. Could they really be two aspects of the same thing?

Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble.

Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.

When Einstein gave General Relativity to the world, he included an extraneous cosmological constant. How did his ‘biggest blunder’ occur?

A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”

How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history.

If you have an old TV set with the “rabbit ear” antennae, and you set it to channel 03, that snowy static can reveal the Big Bang itself.

Creating a culture of innovation requires champions and cheerleaders at every level and in every function within an organization.

They could also “turn off” their fear.

Cooperation was the first technology.

The Greeks were among the first to move beyond “primitive money” and establish an official currency, transforming their trade, government, and even philosophy.

Some think the reason fundamental scientific revolutions are so rare is because of groupthink. It’s not; it’s hard to mess with success.

The future of healthcare may bring powerful collaborations between AI and medical professionals.

The hot Big Bang is often touted as the beginning of the Universe. But there’s one piece of evidence we can’t ignore that shows otherwise.

A new family of drugs is changing the way scientists are thinking about obesity.

Living is about staying busy.