Words of Wisdom — January 15, 2014 Molière on Being Wrong and Right "It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right."- Molière bigthinkeditor Copy a link to the article entitled http://Molière%20on%20Being%20Wrong%20and%20Right Share Molière on Being Wrong and Right on Facebook Share Molière on Being Wrong and Right on Twitter (X) Share Molière on Being Wrong and Right on LinkedIn “It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.”– Molière
Thinking The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker Who — or what — really controls your mind?
The Past The largest accidental explosion of all time More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
High Culture 6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature's most unreliable narrators.
The Well Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why. ▸ 7 min — with Laurie Santos
Starts With A Bang The trick to instantly identifying JWST images If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it's a JWST image or any other observatory.
Can Franz von Stuck Bring the Idea of the “Big” Artist Back? “I am big,” Gloria Swanson’s fading film star Norma Desmond says in Sunset Boulevard. “It’s the pictures that got small.” Have we lost the “big” artist, the artist who tackled […]