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There are four money personality types. Which are you?
A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.
With no reliable way to discern the author of an artwork, we may eventually abandon the question of whether something was made by humans or not.
“Groupthink” gets a bad rap. In reality, we need groups to focus our thinking and to build on the ideas of others.
“This will be one of the most important datasets since the mapping of the Human Genome.”
Science will lead us to a universal morality and a cosmic religion.
The evidence that the Universe is expanding is overwhelming. But how? By stretching the existing space, or by creating new space itself?
As early as we’ve been able to identify them, the youngest galaxies seem to have large supermassive black holes. Here’s how they were made.
It is easy to mock Nobel Laureates who go astray, but eccentricity often accompanies brilliance. We should have some sympathy.
Cal Newport explains how you and your teams can accomplish more while improving quality and supercharging workplace morale.
Could the prevalence of flood myths around the world tell us something about early human migration or even the way our brains work?
Like humans, stars die. The James Webb Space Telescope’s early images already give us a lot of information about how this happens.
Yorkicystis lived during the “Cambrian explosion,” 539 million to 485 million years ago – hundreds of million years before the dinosaurs.
We also don’t know how Tylenol works. But it does work.
The comedian and musician behind the viral hit “BBL Drizzy” shares the books that shaped his thinking and approach to art.
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?
George Orwell got it right: “Never use a long word where a short one will do.”
We don’t know when or how music was originally invented, but we can now track its evolution across space and time thanks to the Global Jukebox.
A fresh view of intelligence — spanning living systems from bacteria to human civilization — challenges the idea that it’s merely problem-solving.
Investor Guy Spier joins Big Think for a chat about the “Oracle of Omaha,” generative AI, what confuses him, and more.
Everyone loves a good underdog story, but the lessons we derive from them depend on how they’re told.
The hallucinations that characterize schizophrenia may be due to a “reality threshold” that is lower than it should be.
The polymath used science to elevate his art.
After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.
From “job crafting” to questioning our preconceived ideas about work, there are many ways to fight burnout and disengagement.
Scientists turn to nature to improve a ubiquitous building material.
Although human beings arrived on Earth just ~300,000 years ago, we’ve transformed the entire planet completely. Here’s how we did it.