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People tend to underestimate how much a friend they’ve lost contact with would enjoy a simple note saying “hi.”
From questionable shipwrecks to outright attacks, the Sentinelese clearly don’t want to be bothered.
Some scientists think we should allow our bodies to more harmlessly live with pathogens until they’re cleared from our systems.
The way we imagine and listen to melodies sheds light on imagination.
You can lead an overconfident chatbot to expert knowledge, but can it actually learn and assimilate new information?
It was originally recorded in the 1970s by cognitive psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.
Is the physical universe independent from us, or is it created by our minds, as suggested by scientist Robert Lanza?
“Not my circus, not my monkeys.”
“Carpe diem” was only one part of Horace’s poem Odes 1.11.
There are many ways asynchronous learning benefits both individuals and organizations, from learner autonomy to cost savings.
To what extent will our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies?
Is the multiverse real? It’s one of the hottest questions in all of theoretical physics. We invited two astrophysicists to join the debate.
From the Big Bang to black holes, singularities are hard to avoid. The math definitely predicts them, but are they truly, physically real?
The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, going back to the hot Big Bang. But was that truly the beginning, and is that truly its age?
Fire was crucial to the evolution of human technology. That’s why alien species stuck in the “oxygen bottleneck” may be forever primitive.
All forms of energy affect the expanding Universe. But if matter and radiation slow the expansion down, how does dark energy speed it up?
In numerous cultures worldwide, women were just as involved in bringing home the prehistoric bacon as their male counterparts.
Predictive power has perverse, anti-democratic consequences. So be a good citizen and lie to election pollsters.
There’s never been a better time to implement empathy training.
Join multiple Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress Judith Light live on Big Think at 2 pm ET on Monday.
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Summit Public Schools take a radically different approach to education. And it’s working.
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and best-selling author Charles Duhigg as he interviews Victoria Montgomery Brown, co-founder and CEO of Big Think.
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A new study from Iceland confirms that a shorter workweek improves productivity.
New tech is a double-edged sword. Integration can be expensive and perilous: Mess up the adoption and jobs are on the line.