How social are our identities?
Jonny Thomson speaks and philosopher Kwame Anthony Appian explore the tyrannous grip of expreme identity politics.
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What do the beginnings of complex life look like?
Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social shares the story of the earliest organised organisms.
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How do you separate good science from nonsense?
Here are 3 lessons from Ethan Siegel's latest article.
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Will automated vehicles become a public good?
Bern Grush, John Niles, and Andrew Miller argue that robotaxis offer a path toward smarter and fairer urban mobility.
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Our 2nd monthly issue, "Biology's New Era," is live now on www.bigthink.com.
In this issue, we explore the bleeding edge of biotech, as well as the scientists, writers, and philosophers whose efforts helped get us here.
Frank Jacobs shares the story of London's taxi drivers and the important brain area that grows in size as they memorize over 25,000 streets.
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Are we losing deep reading in the digital age?
Ross Pomeroy explores how kids reading habits have changed in recent decades.
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What happened to the weavers?
Journalist Andrew Singer examines the industrial revolution and what it can tell us about the effects of AI on today's workforce.
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Hollywood actor Ethan Suplee shares lessons from his real-world fight with addiction and self-hatred.
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Why do most people give up before they get good? #Neuropsych
Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff @neuranne shares 5 cultural myths that make us quit and how to avoid them.
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Will conscious-seeming AI make us more vulnerable to manipulation?
Neuroscientist Anil Seth argues that watching AIs converse in Reddit-like forums intensifies our natural bias to see minds and intentions where none exist.
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Our January 2026 issue is live!
In "The Pursuit of Mastery", we explore what mastery is, how it’s cultivated, and why some people are willing to trade it all for a chance to be the best.
There is a medical myth that still shapes our view of women's health today. #Science #Books
Medical anthropoligist Emily Mendenhall explores the history of hysteria.
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Thanks to new tech, neuroscience is going places it couldn't before. #Neuropsych #Science
Jasna Hodžić outlines how neuroethology could reshape what we think we know about our minds.
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Can slime and dumb rocks help us better define "smart"? #Technology
Eric Markowitz argues that as we search for more powerful AI, maybe we should slow down and reimagine the shape of intelligence itself.
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Is AI pretending to be intelligent, or is it really? @blaiseaguera.bsky.social #Technology #Books
Researcher and CTO at Google, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, argues that AI's intelligence lies in its ability to make predictions.
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5 of our favorite books from 2025: #Books
How is neuroscience changing our view of free will, meaning, and the self?
Rachel Barr explores 3 philosophical debates from the 20th century that are being reshaped by modern neuroscience.
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#Neuropsych
Is social media psychology becoming a problem?
Joe Nucci, psychotherapist and author of Psychobabble, argues that the online misuse of psychological terms is leading us to pathalogize our everyday lives.
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#Neuropsych #Books
Why do we tend to repeat things like using the same mug for our morning coffee?
Anne-Laure Le Cunff explains the neuroscience of everyday rituals.
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Do we really hate hypocrites?
In this excerpt from “The Hypocrisy Trap,” Michael Hallsworth explains why accusations of hypocrisy don’t always damage credibility.
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