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“Quantum mechanics and quantum entanglement are becoming very real. We’re beginning to be able to access this tremendously complicated configuration space to do useful things.”

A popular physicist shares why he believes that the deepest nature of reality is hidden from us.

Are we living in a simulation? Theoretical physicist Brian Greene and Neil deGrasse Tyson walk us through the ideas, which might support this fantastic and unnerving concept. 

Left-right, up-down, back-forth: These are the dimensional directions we’re able to perceive. Theoretical physics posits that additional dimensions could exist beyond our perceptive reach.

Words of wisdom from the late playwright: “It is not the literal past, the ‘facts’ of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.”

[A Top 15 Podcast on iTunes!] We surprise the world’s brightest minds with ideas they’re totally unprepared to discuss. This week on Big Think’s podcast, we’re joined by renowned physicist and author Brian Greene. 

Is there intelligent life out there in the universe? Theoretical physicist Brian Greene explains why that’s a more complicated question that it appears.

Hollywood producer Brian Grazer extols the many benefits of satiating curiosity by meeting extraordinary people and learning what makes them extraordinary.

If we all lived under the intense scrutiny to which we are currently subjecting national news anchor Brian Williams, each of us would be discredited, say neuroscientists who study memory.

The former head of ABC News laments that scandals like the one at NBC undermine trust in the news industry. “Every time this happens, it takes away a little of the credibility of everybody in the news business,” he says.

In a Big Think interview, David Westin, who ran ABC News for 14 years, laid out the steps that NBC needs to take to keep Brian Williams at the anchor desk and recover from Choppergate.

In a Big Think interview, David Westin, who ran ABC News for 14 years, laid out the steps that NBC needs to take to keep Brian Williams at the anchor […]

Editor’s Note: I recently read and subsequently tweeted about Submergence, the new novel by J.M. Ledgard.  Then I asked one of the smartest people I know – Brian O’Neill – […]

What is this thing called love?  I took my own stab at understanding the neurobiological circuits underlying love and sex with my own book, DIRTY MINDS: HOW OUR BRAINS INFLUENCE […]

Currently collaborating with the British poet Rick Holland, music producer Brian Eno has seen speech take on different qualities when it is set to music. “We are all singing,” he says. 

Miguel challenged us to find new voices . Between now and February 17 I am profiling eight nine bloggers that I’ve found informative and intriguing. Most represent a leadership perspective […]

ABC News corrected its story that Muhammad al-‘Awfi was involved in planning the Christmas Day attempted attack. This has only been one of many errors that the eagle-eyes at Waq […]

“There was a time when building the future was inspirational,” Brian Fies writes in his new graphic novel, Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? “Ambitious. Romantic. Even enobling. I […]

Jim Henson knew the value of letting people make mistakes.

A conversation with the chairman of the Jim Henson Company

The heart of the religious ritual is mysticism, argues Brian Muraresku in “The Immortality Key.”

In “The Immortality Key,” Brian Muraresku speculates that the Eucharist could have once been more colorful.

Brian Mullaney, founder of organizations that provide free surgeries for millions of children worldwide, says we need to be solving the “little” problems first.

You can learn an awful lot about people, culture, and politics by studying R.

To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.

Neuroscientists and artists alike are making the case that we could transform the world through psychedelics.

Researchers speculate the famous monument was one of the world’s first solar calendars, possibly inspired by trade with ancient Egyptians. 

NASA will use energy from Earth’s gravity to launch the Lucy spacecraft in October of this year.

The Kazungula Bridge connects Zambia and Botswana, barely missing Namibia and Zimbabwe.

Traces of heroin and cocaine have been found in the tartar of 19th-century Dutch farmers.