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We will become billions of people who share a single vast intellect.

The secret sauce of humor is incongruity. AI knows this as well as we do.

There are dozens of learning and development conferences to choose from each year. Here are 10 of the most popular, along with what makes them unique.

Addicted to spending money you want to save? Here’s how to stop.

The Danish philosopher’s simple paradox — living forwards while looking backwards — can be translated into golden business insights.

By unlearning old leadership mindsets, cultures, and assumptions we can move from Industrial Age thinking to Intelligence Age thinking.

Spying is not usually done these days with balloons because they’re an easy target and are not completely controllable.

Walking is rarer in the U.S. compared to similar nations. It is also deadlier: Nearly 7,500 pedestrians were killed in 2021.

All marbled crayfish descended from a single clone discovered in Heidelberg, Germany in 1995. 

The preservation and celebration of life, and not greed, should be our primary decision-making value. 

Welcome to the Big Think debut of The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Is mindfulness really the panacea it’s touted to be, or are we glossing over some fundamental flaws?

“I think it’s about time we stop allowing every male generation bang their frontal lobe through its most developmental stages.”

Even with the best technology imaginable, you’d probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.

How we organize all our digital stuff — from work research to side hustles to family photos — is key to our productivity.

Much like a muscle, providing effective feedback is an asset leaders can develop over time with focus, consistent effort and commitment.

Recasting the iconic Carrington Event as just one of many superstorms in Earth’s past, scientists reveal the potential for even more massive eruptions from the sun.

When you can’t enter flow, you can still lean on your internal rhythm.

In partisan political times, recognizing the scientific truth is more important than ever. Scientists must be vocal and clear about reality.

Unlock the paradoxes of life through poetic realism.

In the international competition, people with physical disabilities put state-of-the-art devices to the test as they race to complete the tasks of everyday life.

Piano Sonata No. 23 offers a window into the way culture became an instrument of Soviet state policy.

Telegrams were the “Twitter of the 1850s and 1860s” — and they elicited the exact same overblown fears as Twitter does today.

For people with hard-to-treat depression, a non-invasive technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can provide relief.

Quantum physics is starting to show up in unexpected places. Indeed, it is at work in animals, plants, and our own bodies. 

Five times in U.S. history, American presidential candidates have ascended to leadership despite lacking the popular vote. Here’s how.

Ice harvesters once made a living from frozen lakes and ponds, but the work was strenuous and dangerous. Then refrigeration changed everything.

For college students, it’s the early afternoon.

Zombies aren’t a modern-day obsession. Throughout history, fear of the undead led to bizarre burial rituals all over the world.

Today, supermassive black holes and their host galaxies tell a specific story in terms of mass. But JWST reveals a different story early on.