Technology & Innovation — August 9, 2012

Famous Former Interns

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Through luck or sheer force of will, these seven former interns all managed to make it from paper-pushing, truck-loading, and (literally) shit-shovelling to the very top of their fields. Many went on to become divas themselves. But was their coffee any good?

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A composite image showing a galaxy with red circles marking stars on the left and multicolored expanding rings with Earth on the right, all set against a grid background, illustrating concepts like Hubble tension studied by Wendy Freedman.

Starts With A Bang

Is the Hubble tension real? Exclusive interview with Wendy Freedman

Different methods of measuring the Universe’s expansion rate yield high-precision, incompatible answers. But is the problem robustly real?

Silhouette of a person carrying a cross in front of the United States Capitol building, symbolizing cross purposes between faith and politics.

Big Think Books

The price of Christianity’s “broken bargain” with democracy

An atheist’s case for why American democracy needs a more Christlike Christianity.

A split image features a sketched portrait of a bearded man above, with rippling water merging into Leonardo Da Vinci-style sketches below.

The Long Game

What Leonardo’s obsession with water teaches us about longevity

What made Leonardo da Vinci last wasn’t magic — it was process — and his study of fluids can help us win the long game.

A woman sits on a chair with legs crossed, wearing a navy sweater and purple pants, in front of a green background with black abstract line art.

Leadership Development

The rise of the lanager: Why leadership and management can’t be split

Having a vision isn’t enough to be an effective leader.

Scatter plot with dark blue data points and black dashed elliptical contours centered on the origin, with axes labeled ξ (') horizontally and vertically—similar to plots used by astronomers in studies of the smallest galaxy ever discovered.

Starts With A Bang

Astronomers just found the smallest galaxy ever

With stars, gas, and dark matter, galaxies come in a great array of sizes. This new one, Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1, is the smallest by far.

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