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Fantasy, meet statistics: The census comes to Middle-earth!

Like many of us, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius hated waking up early, but his stoic philosophy always helped him get out of bed.

How to say, “In many ways, Proust is similar to Joyce” and get away with it.

These hard-to-finish books are still worth the effort.

With great power comes retcon responsibility.

From “The Castle of Otranto” to “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, these books changed the literary landscape.

Narnia and early Middle-earth were pancake-esque — but their creators took differing views on de-globalization.

Today, the F-word is enjoying a renaissance the likes of which it hasn’t seen since, well, the Renaissance.

The evidence that pollution causes cancer is weak. Lifestyle factors, like smoking, obesity, and alcohol, matter far more.

The sooner you can admit what’s swimming beneath the surface, the sooner you can improve your life.

Business advisor Michael C. Fillios has developed a repeatable playbook for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to add value from technology.

You’ve certainly seen the paintings — but they don’t depict what you think they do. Benjamin Moser discusses with Big Think.

We rightly celebrate Winston Churchill as one of the world’s greatest leaders — but for all the wrong reasons.

Visionaries from Socrates to Steve Jobs have touted curiosity as an essential quality. Here’s how to supercharge your spirit of inquiry.

Really smart people don’t just demand intellectual engagement — they need the opportunity to learn and create something special.

An influential series of books argues that the history of the world is the history of generations. Is it right?

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

Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.

See the world through the eyes of a horse — or a cake pan.

The pursuit of excellence is a noble goal — but constantly having to prove your self-worth can derail your plans for success.

We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.

The combined intellectual heft of multiple “big thinkers” delivered arguably the most successful scientific theory in history.

To break “analysis paralysis,” reduce the number of available options — and introduce an element of chance.

Every successful leader can mine golden knowledge from the works of the Bard.

Through humility, the old arrogance of infallibility crumbles. And in that there is genuine hope to prevent wrongful convictions.

Every opportunity seized is another lost — but not choosing is the worst choice of all.

“If we find just one other example of biology out there, then life is not an accident.”

Quarterback Tom Brady was initially overlooked by NFL scouts, but he had vast hidden reserves of character.

A true scientific view of if, where, and when extraterrestrial life exists is within our grasp thanks to biosignatures and technosignatures.

“To take this in, you need to ride inside the mathematical symbols.”