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Dr. Aditi Nerurkar on toxic resilience and the importance of gratitude and breathing.
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Executive advisor Tiffani Bova wants leaders to value their employees as much as their customers.
Just 12% of Americans account for half the country’s total beef consumption.
The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
Dr. Jen Gunter debunks the most common myths about menstruation.
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AI researcher and author Ken Stanley wonders how our rear-view perspective on success fits into a serendipitous mode of innovation.
Big Think recently spoke with Nick Bostrom about how humans might find fulfillment in a post-scarcity world.
Historians have been able to piece together a clear picture of how the average Roman citizen spent their waking hours.
More than a third of Americans don’t get enough sleep. Diet is an important, under-recognized culprit.
How could we fight Alzheimer’s with the body’s own immunity?
To understand others, you need to see past their fleeting emotions. You must perceive who they are as people.
Like humans, stars die. The James Webb Space Telescope’s early images already give us a lot of information about how this happens.
Josh Kaufman — best-selling author of entrepreneurial classic “The Personal MBA” — explores an essential truth about all decision-making.
How to juggle while walking a tightrope — at work.
Game theory is a unique combination of math and psychology. Its applications turn up everywhere, from nuclear war to Tinder to game shows.
Exoplanet LP 791-18d is likely to have an atmosphere and liquid water.
In numerous cultures worldwide, women were just as involved in bringing home the prehistoric bacon as their male counterparts.
It’s the best-known transcendental number of all-time, and March 14 (3/14 in many countries) is the perfect time to celebrate Pi (π) Day!
“The Tao of the wise is to work without effort.”
How to say “I love you” in Basque, the “most loving” cities around the world, and where most of America’s singles live — and so much more!
Get rid of the notion that the best employees come from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?
According to neuropsychologist Julia DiGangi, no one can live a life free of emotional pain. We can only choose how those emotions empower us.
Until the Apollo missions, we had no idea how the moon got here, just a series of educated guesses. They rewrote the story of the moon’s origins.
What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.
Author A.J. Jacobs explores how voting has changed since the days of the Founding Fathers — for better and for worse.
After almost a century in print, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” still has lessons to teach us.
American students are being compelled to specialize earlier and earlier. Here’s what it takes to build a successful physics foundation.