The ‘reasonable person’ represents someone who is both common and good.
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Business leaders know they must prepare for technological upheavals in the years ahead. But keeping up-to-date on new technologies—to say nothing of understanding their complexities and forecasting those shifts—is an […]
One reason to suspect you have COVID-19 may be the order in which the symptoms appear.
Your television may soon get a serious upgrade.
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Big Think’s co-founder and CEO, Victoria Montgomery Brown, offers six pieces of advice to founders in her forthcoming book.
“I suddenly woke up one day and thought, you idiot, you are letting your life fade away, you have got to do something.”
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Clinical trials by Janssen Pharmaceuticals showed troubling results.
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We all know somebody who avoids meat. These schools of thought suggest those people are onto something.
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‘Kanal Istanbul’ would create a second Bosporus – and immortalize its creator.
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We must rethink the “chemical imbalance” theory of mental health.
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Can researchers use data science to accurately predict the future?
A recent clinical trial in Brazil highlights the dangers of two potential COVID-19 treatments: chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine.
Time runs backward there. Other physicists are not convinced.
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‘The Broad and Narrow Way’ helped 19th-century preachers explain the consequences of virtue and vice.