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“We are what our bodies do with what we eat.”
The decline of global poverty is one of the most important achievements in history, but the end of poverty is still very far away.
What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.
GLP-1 agonists may be able to treat addiction, prevent Alzheimer’s, and more.
As the Manhattan Project headed for completion, German attempts to build a nuclear weapon had already been dismantled.
Even with leap years and long-term planning, our calendar won’t be good forever. Here’s why, and how to fix it.
Explore how belief shapes destiny, from Oedipus Rex to modern geopolitics.
In our competitive world, fortune does not appear to favor the humble — but a strong counter-narrative is emerging.
Magnetic monopoles began as a mere theoretical curiosity. They might hold the key to understanding so much more.
The pathogen typically kills more than 90% of people it infects.
De-urbanized lifestyles can be aligned with basic Taoist principles — and remote workers are starting to feel the connection.
Benjamin Breen on his greatest revelations while writing about the birth of psychedelic science.
Philosophers Massimo Pigliucci and Greg Lopez discuss how Stoicism can help us gain perspective on our emotions and act with intention in the world.
It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime.
Wearable technology can help increase lifespan by changing what we know about our dietary needs and creating new ways to exercise.
Psychopathic tendencies may be present to some extent in all of us. New research is reframing this often sensationalized and maligned set of traits and finding some positive twists.
A medical entomologist points to metabolism, body odor, and mindset.
Aragon AI CEO Wesley Tian tells Big Think Business how he took his company from initial conception, through acceleration, to the scaling phase.
Biological age is a better health indicator than the number of years you’ve lived, but it’s tricky to measure.
Moments of social anxiety around truth tend to be accompanied by similar “fool the eye” pop culture phenomena.
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at higher energies, something even grander happens?
We often laugh at inappropriate things, but not when we are emotionally invested. Laughter cannot be serious. So, can we ever laugh at death?
Our state of extreme social interconnectedness has rapidly accelerated the rollercoaster pace at which societal confidence may collapse.
It was originally recorded in the 1970s by cognitive psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.
If you think of the Big Bang as an explosion, we can trace it back to a single point-of-origin. But what if it happened everywhere at once?
Predicted way back in the 1960s, the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 completed the Standard Model. Here’s why it remains fascinating.
Space weather poses a tremendous threat to all satellites, knocking all computer systems offline. Is that a recipe for Kessler syndrome?
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.