Airbnb’s CBO, Dave Stephenson, joins Big Think for a chat about elite-team leadership, “founder mode,” the Taylor Swift effect, and more.
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“The stars made our minds, and now our minds look back.”
Barry Ritholtz — market commentator, founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and podcast host — shares what really trips investors up.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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National Geographic’s first James Webb Space Telescope book shows us the cosmos like never before.
You can learn an awful lot about people, culture, and politics by studying R.
AI helped create films like “Jurassic Park” and “A.I.”, so Steven Spielberg and other artists shouldn’t worry about losing their jobs.
This collection of learning and development quotes serves as a reminder of the meaning and purpose behind this important work.
In the expanding Universe, different ways of measuring its rate give incompatible answers. Nobel Laureate Adam Riess explains what it means.
An interview with filmmaker Jason Sussberg about his new film about Stewart Brand and the importance of culture in achieving progress.
As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble.
Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of “The Immortality Key,” unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.
We bring multifaceted selves to our interactions, and in these interactions co-create each other again and again.
Many contemporary composers live in the shadow of Bach and Beethoven, even though they’re just as interesting to listen to.
NASA will use energy from Earth’s gravity to launch the Lucy spacecraft in October of this year.
Even with all the recent impacts we’ve seen, it might be more “foe” than “friend” to us.
The Kazungula Bridge connects Zambia and Botswana, barely missing Namibia and Zimbabwe.
In “The Immortality Key,” Brian Muraresku speculates that the Eucharist could have once been more colorful.
Both views are equally spectacular, but unequally informative. Every so often, a creative amateur project highlights our professional achievements. This mosaic shows the region between the constellations of Cygnus and […]
Remarkable ‘fan art’ commemorates 50th anniversary of legendary guitar player’s passing.
Our galactic home in the cosmos — the Milky Way — is only one of two trillion galaxies in the observable Universe. Our galactic home in the cosmos — the Milky Way — is merely one among the […]
The view from beyond Pluto is far enough from Earth that we can see the stars shift. NASA’s New Horizons, humanity’s first spacecraft to encounter Pluto, is more than 4.3 billion […]
Johns Hopkins University professor Susan Carnell explains the neuroscience behind eating out of boredom (and how to stop).
The theoretical reasons to expect it are compelling, but the technology required to detect it is unfathomable. All throughout our galaxy, millions of black holes of a variety of masses […]
This mystery comes in two varieties: repeating and non-repeating. Here’s what we know so far. Imagine that you were looking out at the distant Universe, watching the stars, galaxies, and the […]
It’s an incredibly useful approximation. But the truth takes us far deeper. Anyone who’s ever taken a physics course has learned the same myth for centuries now: that any object thrown, […]
“It’s just a joke,” right?