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A playbook for L&D leaders who want to drive growth, not just deliver training

“For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD.”

4 things you should consider before launching your next global learning program.

The outrageously accomplished magician-inventor-author chats to Big Think about fear, multitasking, and successful work-life reinvention.

Generative AI is arriving fast — both overtly and covertly — and without solid L&D guidance leaders and teams will be hobbled, argues Matt Beane.

The “Doctor Strange” director says mystery shifts your worldview — “not in a metaphorical sense, but in a deeply experiential one.”

Rebuilding the NFL franchise in the early 2020s echoed the corporate overhauls that had transformed Boeing and Ford.

“Can we push these cells to do something other than what they normally do?” asks developmental biologist Michael Levin. “Can they build something completely different?”

“The amount of interest is enormous,” says anesthesiologist Boris Heifets. “People are dropping in and coming out of the woodwork, trying to understand how to do this.”

Photons come in every wavelength you can imagine. But one particular quantum transition makes light at precisely 21 cm, and it’s magical.

The military is courting tech startups to help it win the AI arms race.

Common knowledge says the maximum size of a PDF is as big as 40% of Germany — but that’s a gross underestimate.

Duke sociologist Dr. Christopher Bail on the tech’s potential to foster empathy in an age of division.

You no longer need an army of followers to stand out as a writer — “one great piece is all it takes,” says Perell.

Barry Ritholtz — market commentator, founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and podcast host — shares what really trips investors up.

The Wharton School professor — and author of Co-Intelligence — outlines ways we can tap into the AI advantage safely and effectively.

Hospice nurse Julie McFadden shares three examples where people hold off death, just for a bit.

A brief guide to habits that separate deep understanding from superficial knowledge — and how to cultivate them.

Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in physics. They’re more than mathematical structures. They help describe the Universe.

Whether you run the clock forward or backward, most of us expect the laws of physics to be the same. A 2012 experiment showed otherwise.

Psychiatrist Dr. Bessel van der Kolk discusses key methods for rewiring the brain, kickstarting the healing process, and opening your mind to new perspectives.

Annie Duke, a poker champion turned decision scientist, talks with Big Think about how to choose well under uncertainty.

While death-bed utterances are more famous, baby’s first words have influenced us too.

New research from Big Think+ sheds light on why employees can find the act of providing feedback to be intimidating, and how L&D can ease this fear by elevating feedback beyond pure evaluation.

Surprisingly, multimodal large language models struggle to read time on analog clocks.

From “crave” packs to Valentine bookings, the world’s first fast-food hamburger chain values innovation from every level of the organization.

The founder of gourmet fast food juggernauts Pret and Itsu unpacks the meaning of success and what really inspires him.

Much like a muscle, providing effective feedback is an asset leaders can develop over time with focus, consistent effort and commitment.

Delirium is one of the most perplexing deathbed phenomena, exposing the gap between our cultural ideals of dying words and the reality of a disoriented mind.

If you think of the Big Bang as an explosion, we can trace it back to a single point-of-origin. But what if it happened everywhere at once?