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The Buddha wasn't concerned with transcendence, but rather fully embodying the moment.
It took a 160-strong response team of paramedics, firefighters, and rescue workers to get the chaotic scene under control.
What’s your Halloween ideal: Alfred Hitchcock or Wes Craven? If you pick the Master of Suspense over Nightmare on Elm Street, then I have the ultimate Halloween artist for you: […]
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The role of a leader is not to do a job, but to get a job done. This may sound obvious, but it is the most difficult concept that leaders […]
The Obama administration had a rough start to its communication strategy on the stimulus plan, going from no message to a catastrophe frame, only at the last minute shifting to […]
Andrew Gazdecki — the founder and CEO of Acquire.com — explores the skillsets and pitfalls of selling a business. And why it’s often crucial to start all over again.
Venture capitalist and Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake talks to Big Think about why AI won’t make the internet better, her influences beyond tech, and more.
5-MeO-DMT may offer a practical way to access and study consciousness in its most basic form.
The conversation you're having with an LLM about groundbreaking new ideas in theoretical physics is completely meritless. Here's why.
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Your brain changes when you experience something, and it changes again when you remember it. Two neuroscientists explain what that means for memory, perception, and identity.
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A mid-flight scare reveals how embracing death can bring purpose and meaning to everyday life.
"The rise of the internet brought about similar fears, yet it ultimately made learning richer and more accessible."
Unconsidered productivity might leave you moving efficiently in the entirely wrong direction.
Groundbreaking invention does not always translate to commercial benefits. The challenges that faced Microsoft Research help explain why.
New research challenges old assumptions about the evolution of the human brain.
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.
Psychologist Bob Sutton encourages leaders and teams to identify the different forms of friction — and reclaim time that would be lost to organizational drag.
We need to fully acknowledge problems, while vigorously pursuing solutions. Call it “solutionism.”
Can we learn to always look on the bright side of life?
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It can be overwhelming to navigate the pains of life, but the iconic self-help author believes you can find yourself by answering just four questions
Unlikely Collaborators
Playing the long game in Japan is about creating something so enduring that it becomes timeless.
Of the millions of substances people encounter daily, health researchers have focused on only a few hundred. Those in the emerging field of exposomics want to change that.
A crowdsourced "final exam" for AI promises to test LLMs like never before. Here's how the idea, and its implementation, dooms us to fail.
The digital world will always entail risks for teens, but that doesn’t mean parents aren’t without recourse.
In "Life As No One Knows It," Sara Imari Walker explains why the key distinction between life and other kinds of "things" is how life uses information.
How “Catastrophe and Social Change” (1920) became the first systematic analysis of human behavior in a disaster.
After almost a century in print, "How to Win Friends and Influence People" still has lessons to teach us.
"Business Adventures" by John Brooks was first published in 1969 and remains a must-read for all CEOs.
The passage of time is something we all experience, as it takes us from one moment to the next. But could it all just be an illusion?
Some think the reason fundamental scientific revolutions are so rare is because of groupthink. It's not; it's hard to mess with success.