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.
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Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where’s everyone else?
If you gave me $400 and I gave you $3.15, would you consider yourself wealthier? That’s a financial analogy for the supposed fusion power “breakthrough.”
Yondr CEO Graham Dugoni unpacks the technological zeitgeist in this exclusive Big Think interview covering media ecology, leadership, AI, human connection, and much more.
Your brain is remarkably good at mapping out physical spaces — even if it’s an imaginary space like Hogwarts. But how does the brain do it?
Many still cling to the idea that we live in a deterministic Universe, despite the nature of quantum physics. Now, the “least spooky” interpretation no longer works.
If the metaverse is money, then companies will certainly want to play, too.
It isn’t just identical particles that can be entangled, but even those with fundamentally different properties interfere with each other.
We’ve already observed three cases where it’s happened. When you look at an object in space, it’s pretty easy to tell if it’s a star or a planet. Stars are […]
Before Rome was an empire, it was a republic. And before it was a republic, it was a kingdom ruled by seven mythical kings — some better than others.
Does history have a grand narrative, or is it just a random walk to no place in particular? And is the world as we know it about to change?
These astounding inventions show that civilizations of the past were a lot more advanced than we might have thought.
These hard-to-finish books are still worth the effort.
The cat-and-mouse game between China and the world’s semiconductor companies is already having enormous consequences.
How the search for alien life is taking place right here in our own Solar System. If you want to understand the origin of life in the Universe, you have three […]
Why can’t more rainwater be collected for the long, dry spring and summer when it’s needed?
True north, magnetic north, and grid north have aligned. There’s also a connection to James Bond.
New studies find the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is the most “pristine” ever discovered.
Measurements of the acceleration of the universe don’t agree, stumping physicists working to understand the cosmic past and future. A new proposal seeks to better align these estimates — and is likely testable.
The Virtual Metaverse will be for gaming and other short duration uses, while the Augmented Metaverse will revolutionize society.
From “The Castle of Otranto” to “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, these books changed the literary landscape.
Since the 1980s, engineered monoclonal antibodies have been knocking out invading germs. Sperm may be next.
Stoicism is a big deal right now, but it has some major flaws. Here’s why you might want to hold off on becoming a Stoic.
The past ~4 billion years have been an incredibly successful, unbroken run for life on Earth. The future won’t be nearly so bright.
Mike Bechtel, chief futurist with Deloitte Consulting LLP, joins Big Think for a wide-ranging look at what’s next — and why.
Our huge, expanding Universe may truly be infinite. But if the set of possible quantum outcomes is also infinite, which “infinity” wins?
Listening to some songs can cause a powerful physiological response known as “frisson.” What is it, and why does it happen?
If you find yourself on one of these roads, it might be a while before you see another fellow traveler.
Only recently have scientists directly witnessed this most pivotal of events in biology.
It’s simple to make, easy to use, and should work against any variant.