Science confirms what you already knew about being helpful to others. | Big Think
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Learn about the massive accomplishments of one of our greatest scientists, Marie Curie. | Big Think Science
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Learn about the massive accomplishments of one of our greatest scientists, Marie Curie. | Big Think Science
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Curiosity is a superpower! Find out how from the Academy Award-winning producer of A Beautiful Mind, Brian Grazer. | Big Think Science
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Curiosity is a superpower! Find out how from the Academy Award-winning producer of A Beautiful Mind, Brian Grazer. | Big Think Science
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Learn about the 10 most popular learning techniques, and how effective they actually are. | Big Think Science
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Learn about the 10 most popular learning techniques, and how effective they actually are. | Big Think Science
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What would intelligent extraterrestrial life look like? First of all, it won't have claws. This all-star cast of scientists—E.O. Wilson, Michio Kaku, Bill Nye, and Jonathan B. Losos—explains what science has to say about alien biology, and what Hollywood depictions get wrong. | Big Think Science
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What would intelligent extraterrestrial life look like? First of all, it won't have claws. This all-star cast of scientists—E.O. Wilson, Michio Kaku, Bill Nye, and Jonathan B. Losos—explains what science has to say about alien biology, and what Hollywood depictions get wrong. | Big Think Science
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Crowdsourcing as an idea isn't anything new, says historian and sex researcher Alice Dreger. She tells us about the history of public gathering of information from the medieval era to today. The enlightenment period was a big boon to the arts and sciences, but also an even bigger help to how knowledge is organized and distributed. For example, could Wikipediа be an overlooked beacon of democracy? | Big Think Science
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Crowdsourcing as an idea isn't anything new, says historian and sex researcher Alice Dreger. She tells us about the history of public gathering of information from the medieval era to today. The enlightenment period was a big boon to the arts and sciences, but also an even bigger help to how knowledge is organized and distributed. For example, could Wikipediа be an overlooked beacon of democracy? | Big Think Science
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Princeton researchers have trained an AI to predict and prevent a common problem during nuclear fusion reactions. | Big Think Science
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Princeton researchers have trained an AI to predict and prevent a common problem during nuclear fusion reactions. | Big Think Science
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What role can art play in science? An unexpectedly important one, says NASA's Michelle Thaller. Art is being used by NASA to communicate its discoveries and concepts and can help people learn science. | Big Think Science
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The Pomodoro Technique will teach your brain to focus better 25 minutes at a time. Learn more from Professor Barbara Oakley. | Big Think Science
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Researchers discover that being on LSD makes your brain mimic a baby's mind. | Big Think Science
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Scientists designed a pacemaker that transforms light into bioelectricity, or heart cell-generated electrical signals. | Big Think Science
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The brain can be wired in many different ways, and not all 'normal', e.g. autism. But those differences are strengths, not weaknesses, says Heather Heying, evolutionary biologist and former professor at the now controversial Evergreen State College. | Big Think Science
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Is Earth FLAT or ROUND? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, and NASA's Michelle Thaller present the evidence to end this conspiracy theory once and for all! | Big Think Science
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Can radiation in space limit human exploration? It's a real challenge, explains NASA's Michelle Thaller. | Big Think Science
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Here's a particularly powerful paradigm of thinking: Bayes' Rule Science Educator and Public Speaker, Julia Galef tells us more! | Big Think
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The same science that makes slot machines addictive is part of why we are addicted to our phones. Tristan Harris explains the methods that hack your brain to love scrolling to see the next big thing. | Big Think Science
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Intelligence doesn't mean much if you don't know how to apply it. That's why emotional intelligence, or EQ, might matter more to future hiring managers than IQ ever did. | Big Think Science
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Yoga and meditation isn't just good for your mind and body, it's good for your DNA, too! | Big Think Science
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Americans are inherently a little crazy. But now the crazy is being enabled by politicians in the White House and by the internet. How exactly did it get so bad? | Big Think Science
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The Vesuvius Challenge has one goal: develop and train an AI capable of turning the fossilized ink back into discernable letters & save the library’s contents from extinction. The prize? $700,000. This is the story of how 3 students won: https://x.com/freethinkmedia/status/1807789680605138957 | Big Think Science
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If you've ever watched someone meditating it looks like they're just sitting there with their eyes closed. But what's going on in their head is extremely interesting: metta meditation (or 'love-kindness' meditation if that's your thing) has been proven to actually make long-term practitioners certifiably better people. | Big Think Science
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Most may think of creativity as the process of your brain making large leaps to link unconnected concepts to something new. It's actually the opposite, according to Beau Lotto. Creativity is small, logical leaps based on your prior experiences. | Big Think Science
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It’s Easy to Teach Kids to Love Science. So Why Do We Keep Failing at It? | Big Think
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It's "Embarrassing" that Our Species Is Indifferent to Science, Especially When We Ignore Existential Threats http://bit.ly/degrasse-tyson-bt | Big Think
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Science and Art Are Not Separate Disciplines, Says Brian Greene http://bit.ly/greene-bt | Big Think
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Every vote counts, or so the saying goes. But should it? Richard Dawkins expounds on the virtues of representative democracy, and why elitism shouldn't be a dirty word. | Big Think Science
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The most revelatory answers in life come from complex, diverse populations. Technology can open our eyes to what we're missing and destroy our subconscious biases in one fell swoop. Beau Lotto highlights the importance of diversity when finding the big answers. | Big Think Science
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We have always needed the power of narrative to orient ourselves in the world, and the tale of Adam and Eve is one of the earliest and most powerful examples of good and evil on record. To understand why this story exists is to understand something fundamental about human nature, and to pick at the holes in its logic to think deeply. | Big Think Science
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Your senses are lying to you. | Big Think
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