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"Could black holes be the key to a quantum theory of gravity, a deeper theory of how reality, of how space and time works? Well, I think so."
The fear of unleashing forces beyond control has haunted science for centuries.
About six million years ago, the Mediterranean was sealed off from the Atlantic, and over centuries it ran dry. One megaflood reversed that.
1hr 26mins
“I like to say that physics is hard because physics is easy, by which I mean we actually think about physics as students.”
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“You can be aware of sadness from a point of view that is not merely sad, and you can be aware of fear from a point of view that's not merely afraid.”
A conversation with Annaka Harris on shared perception, experimental science, and why our intuition about consciousness is wrong.
The JFK Memorial at Runnymede provides a link between America's and Britain's founding documents.
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"We've sent out one or two little messages, but we certainly aren't investing billions of dollars shouting out into the cosmos saying, "Hey, we are here. Come say hi.""
First 'Oumuamua, then Borisov, and now ATLAS have shown us that interstellar interlopers are real. Here's what the newest one teaches us.
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"You can't possibly exaggerate how much better it is to live in a peaceful, orderly society, and to be wealthy, and healthy, and surrounded by people who you love."
Snorre Kjesbu — SVP & GM of Cisco’s Employee Experience group — has a bold vision for the future of human interaction.
With "Karla's Choice," Nick Harkaway had an impossible mission: maintain his father’s legacy while staying true to his voice.
A paradigm should be elastic enough to accommodate new data and broad enough to explain the world. For Rupert Sheldrake, ours does neither.
The "Doctor Strange" director says mystery shifts your worldview — "not in a metaphorical sense, but in a deeply experiential one."
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Barry Ritholtz — market commentator, founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and podcast host — shares what really trips investors up.
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"What would a totalitarian society that is not well disposed to our own do if it had God-like power? We don't wanna find out."
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"Everything that we care about, everything we experience, everything we know, we know it through our conscious awareness of it."
Investor Guy Spier joins Big Think for a chat about the “Oracle of Omaha,” generative AI, what confuses him, and more.
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"We're awash in lies and misinformation to a degree that was not possible before we got the internet and in particular before we got social media."
“I want to change the way we think about the past altogether,” says Dr. Betül Kaçar, an astrobiologist who studies the origin of life.
From Allen Funt to Donald Trump, author Emily Nussbaum explains how reality TV has blurred the lines between, well, reality and TV.
Migration statistics should be regarded with wariness as they are difficult to analyze properly and easily manipulated for political gain.
The legendary investor explains the transformative Objectives and Key Results goal-setting framework with an imaginary Super Bowl strategy.
In many ways, the rising anti-phone fervor in schools mirrors moral panics of the past.
"You’ll be able to fly twice as fast as a Boeing or Airbus, and it’ll be like the cost of flying business today."
"Okay, dad, but GMOs help feed the world."
When three wise men gifted baby Jesus with gold, frankincense, and myrrh, they had no idea one was made from colliding neutron stars.
In post-Soviet nations where ministers have a relatively high BMI, corruption tends to be high, too.
"We do not experience primarily because we have brains; we experience because we are alive."