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Why Netflix adopted the “No Brilliant Asshole” rule — and how to make sure bullies don’t destroy teams.
Ryan Condal, who worked in pharmaceutical advertising before Hollywood, talks with Big Think about imposter syndrome, “precrastination,” and Westeros lore.
The most momentous and significant events in our lives are the ones we do not see coming. Life is defined by the unforeseen.
A sober look at a wild conspiracy theory that argues the Middle Ages never happened.
Big Think asks startup legend and VC heavyweight Ben Horowitz to reflect on his bestseller “The Hard Thing About Hard Things.”
To gain its full value, L&D leaders must be open to challenging assumptions about how they approach on-the-job training.
Running to catch the bus might help you live longer.
Why would someone who has spent their entire career following orders become a great leader overnight?
These landscapes — of geographical differences in head shapes — have vanished from acceptable science (and cartography).
“I am an anthropologist, and for years, I have spoken to people who have had these experiences.”
Is immortality a tantalizing possibility or a philosophical paradox?
Science fiction met nuclear fission when Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd pondered the explosive potential of nuclear energy.
How to say, “In many ways, Proust is similar to Joyce” and get away with it.
Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.
Always look on the bright side of death.
The word “turkey” can refer to everything from the bird itself to a populous Eurasian country to movie flops.
Chetan Dube — founder and CEO of Quant — tells Big Think why a pivotal and monumental year for agentic AI has just begun.
Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.
“The more I unleash myself from the tethers of domestication, the happier I feel.”
Close to 70% of drugs advertised on TV offer little to no benefit over other cheaper drugs.
Many conversations start awkwardly and derail from there, but a few simple techniques can put them back on track.
Embedded in a cell phone or in accessories such as rings, bracelets or watches, the novel tools aim to make it easier to manage hypertension. But they must still pass several tests before hitting the clinic.
Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we’re relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here’s our place in natural history.
Team storming — as defined by psychologist Bruce Tuckman — can be fractious. Done right, the benefits are immense.
From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we’re seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.
Will you die when your body dies?
Archaeologists can learn how societies lived by studying what they left behind when they died. Astronomers are doing much the same thing.
“Domesticated viral genes” may not be domesticated as scientists thought.