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

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.

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

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

“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?”

How Stacy Madison — founder of Stacy’s Pita Chips and BeBOLD Foods — discovered that reinvention is not a one-off deal but an ongoing process.

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

“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.

Slack’s recent radical upskilling booster week highlighted the urgent need for new approaches to L&D: here are some of the most groundbreaking.

The U.S. ranked 59th worldwide.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

Unconsidered productivity might leave you moving efficiently in the entirely wrong direction.

Cognitive neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher Summerfield explores the differences, and similarities, of how AI and humans make meaning of the world.

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