The amygdala can hijack your brain’s response if it recognizes past trauma in a current situation. To regain control, simply press pause.
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Japanese thought can’t be easily characterized by just a few books — but this essential guide is a great place to start.
When supermassive black holes merge, they emit more energy than anything else to occur in our Universe except the Big Bang.
The massive craft could carry 100 humans to Mars and revolutionize space exploration.
We can’t always change our horrible bosses — but we can transform the ways we interact with them.
Albert Camus was a Franco-Algerian philosopher with some great insights on the meaning of life, why you should look to this life and not the next, and why suicide is a poor choice.
In movies and TV shows, aliens look like pointy-eared humans. Is this realistic? If evolution is predictable, then it very well might be.
What happens when scientists “write what they know”? Some amazing science fiction stories.
Remembering Frank Drake, who transformed the search for alien life & extraterrestrial intelligence into a full-fledged scientific endeavor.
Some effective altruists “earn to give” — they make as much money as they can and then donate most of it to charities.
How the cult hit sci-fi show imagines a “techno-realist” future.
To gain its full value, L&D leaders must be open to challenging assumptions about how they approach on-the-job training.
The common drug is called gabapentin, which is currently used to control seizures and manage nerve pain.
When we satisfy our curiosity, the brain has a particular way of rewarding us.
Prison is an unreliable method of punishment. Let’s do better.
Reading between the lines of Dorothy’s adventure to the Emerald City.
If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can’t do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
A woman’s name would undermine the credibility of the mission. Names of former Nazis, however, were no problem.
George Raveling — the iconic leader who brought Michael Jordan to Nike — shares with Big Think a lifetime of priceless wisdom learned at the crossroads of sports and business.
The great philosopher spent the final portion of his painful life in a vegetative state. Did illness get him there, or was it his own philosophy?
The truth may be out there — but it’s not in these close encounters of the third kind.
From COVID and cancer vaccines to a steady drop in the number of people living in extreme poverty, there are reasons for optimism in 2023.
Edible electronics, devices that can be broken down and digested, could perform many useful functions inside the body.
Shortly after planet Earth formed, life took a permanent hold on our surface. But just how common is such an outcome?
You can lead an overconfident chatbot to expert knowledge, but can it actually learn and assimilate new information?
Arguments on social media are notorious. Can practicing intellectual humility make us smarter and happier? Science says yes.
Yondr CEO Graham Dugoni unpacks the technological zeitgeist in this exclusive Big Think interview covering media ecology, leadership, AI, human connection, and much more.
We’ve only seen Uranus up close once: from Voyager 2, back in 1986. The next time we do it, its features will look entirely different.
Carnivorous plants fascinate as much now as when their gruesome diet was first discovered.