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Instead of walking a mile in someone’s shoes, try reading a chapter in their book.

The researchers rebuked writers, scholars, and public figures for lazily perpetuating the notion of widespread gender bias in academic science.

When you bring two fingers together, you can feel them “touch” each other. But are your atoms really touching, and if so, how?

Alex Edmans, professor of finance at the London Business School, warns us to be mindful of the incentives surrounding misinformation — including our desire to believe it.

Caitlin Rivers wants to tell the story of epidemiology and the public health heroes who keep the world safe and healthy.

Technology goes in directions we can never predict — so we must be prepared to limit the spread of unintended consequences.

The father of relativity understood that “not everything that counts can be counted” — as do today’s most impactful leaders.

How does the mind interact with the body? Nobody really knows — but these philosophers ventured an answer.

Your brain is not an obsolete piece of technology. Once properly trained for learning, it’s your ticket to navigating the AI landscape.

Three of the greatest moral philosophers — Bentham, Kant and Aristotle — offer invaluable and practical lessons for leaders today.

Protons and neutrons are held together by the strong force: with 3 colors and 3 anticolors. So why are there only 8 gluons, and not 9?

Black holes encode information on their surfaces, but evaporate away into Hawking radiation. Is that information preserved, and if so, how?

BMW found it’s possible to remote-drive vehicles using available technology. All it takes is some software updates and a cellular network connection.

We have it in our power to forgive a debt — and learning to use this power in the workplace can be golden.

Smaller family networks, more great-grandparents, and fewer cousins.

Carving out time for useful reflection is among the most valuable of leadership disciplines, explains “questionologist” Warren Berger.

Former spacewalker Mike Massimino tells Big Think how NASA missions shaped great leaders.

Our desire for recognition at work can lead to perilous ends.

It may be an advantage in some contexts.

“My dad asked me if I had been to tutoring and I lied… Then he showed me the tablet.”

To Einstein, nature had to be rational. But quantum physics showed us that there was not always a way to make it so.

Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?

Smart investors recognize that the stock market doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

It’s hard to know what other people know. But it’s not impossible.

And it’s much, much less expensive.

“Groupthink” gets a bad rap. In reality, we need groups to focus our thinking and to build on the ideas of others.

Realizing that matter and energy are quantized is important, but quantum particles aren’t the full story; quantum fields are needed, too.

If you look into a mirror, you’ll notice that left-and-right are reversed, but up-and-down is preserved. The reason isn’t what you think.

In “Not Born Yesterday,” author and cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier makes the case that misinformation is overrated — and other human foibles are underrated.

Long-term research efforts have revealed alarming mental health trends.