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Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
A great many cosmic puzzles still remain unsolved. By embracing a broad and varied approach, particle physics heads toward a bright future.
The secret sauce of humor is incongruity. AI knows this as well as we do.
Ways to move forward when you're wrong and I'm right.
The game of Plinko perfectly illustrates chaos theory. Even with indistinguishable initial conditions, the outcome is always uncertain.
The difference between predictions and observations of the magnetic properties of muons suggests a mystery for the Standard Model.
That scary swirling void from which nothing can escape is our perfect universal translation tool.
Business acumen training can help everyone from individual contributors to directors learn how to seize opportunities for growth.
Unmasking a "convenient untruth" in U.S. politics.
Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.
Bertrand Russell shows us how to recognize emotional arguments smuggled into presumed statements of fact.
Nature may not allow us full access to the weirdness of quantum mechanics.
A brief look at the six-decade challenge to psychiatry.
Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.
To make a ton of information stick in your mind, you have to make it chunky.
As AI evolves — and more robotic warfare systems are deployed — the nature of conflict could change beyond recognition.
Leadership training can have huge dividends, when it's done right. Here are seven best practices for building a leadership development program that works.
The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?
We cannot deduce laws about a higher level of complexity by starting with a lower level of complexity. Here, reductionism meets a brick wall.
Perhaps we should be searching for “other Mercurys” rather than “other Earths.”
Four key components to guide the creation of emotional intelligence training for leaders.
Meaningful pictures are assembled from meaningless noise.
Architect and brand innovator Kevin Ervin Kelley sounds the alarm for workplace culture — and argues for a “big bang” collision of forms and shapes.
Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can't? No. But if they can calculate faster, that's quantum supremacy.
A Fermilab study confirms decades-old measurements regarding the size and structure of protons.
A relatively new interpretation of quantum mechanics asks us to reimagine the process of science itself.
It’s far less likely to wander into bizarre lies, emotional rants, and manipulative tangents.
When leaders connect enterprise ambition with the driving spirit of activism, everyone wins.
Reframing life in terms of death reveals some of the biggest philosophical problems with how we think about living systems.