Big Think

Big Think is an online multimedia platform that was established in 2007 by Victoria Brown and Peter Hopkins. The site features a variety of content, including interviews, presentations, and discussions with specialists from diverse areas of expertise. Victoria Brown serves as the CEO, while Peter Hopkins holds the position of president. In November 2018, Big Think started creating videos that are sponsored by The Charles Koch Foundation.

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The dancing monk: Why mature people don't chase total control

2 days ago | bigthink.com | Jonny Thomson

A place to pause and reflect on life’s bigger questions, with Big Think’s Jonny Thomson. “Put yourself […] in the mind of a 3-, 4-, or 5-year-old,” Oliver Burkeman instructs me. “You just get up every day, and you have no say. I mean, of course, you get some say, but you know what I mean? Where you live, where you’re going — you know that the plans are just completely outside of your control.
How the Milky Way-Andromeda merger became so uncertain

3 days ago | bigthink.com | Ethan Siegel

Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. If you had asked any informed astronomer about the fate of our galaxy here in the 21st century, you would have gotten a near-universal story from practically all of them: in about four billion years, the Milky Way would merge with the only galaxy larger than itself in the entire Local Group, Andromeda.
The Andrew Mayne interview: How to succeed as a polymath

4 days ago | bigthink.com | Tim Brinkhof

Learn from the world’s biggest business thinkers. In an age where most careers converge towards specialization, genuine Renaissance-style polymaths have become increasingly difficult to come by — but Andrew Mayne comfortably fits the bill. Bestselling author, science educator, original OpenAI prompt engineer, inventor, founder, coder, and protective-shark-suit designer all appear on his packed resume. The sky, it seems, is Mayne’s limit.
The three laws of love, and how to follow them

4 days ago | bigthink.com | Meghan Sullivan

Meghan Sullivan: In today's society, we oftentimes separate love from moral philosophy in pretty profound ways. We think about love as primarily a psychological phenomenon, something that we don't have a great deal of control over. When we think about morality, we think about looking for rules and principles that do not have any exceptions, that are unemotional. How could a certain emotion and attitude be so central to our lives but also be seemingly completely independent of ethics?
10 quotes about science's value to society

4 days ago | bigthink.com | Ethan Siegel

Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. Just like Germany in 1933, the US government is actively destroying science today. These ten historical quotes remind us of science’s unique, irreplaceable societal value. 1.) “Scientists do not discover in order to know, but rather, they know in order to discover.” -Alfred Whitehead2.) “Believe those who seek the truth.
Three responses to grief in the philosophy of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Camus

5 days ago | bigthink.com | Jonny Thomson

A place to pause and reflect on life’s bigger questions, with Big Think’s Jonny Thomson. This article was first published on Big Think in October 2021. It was updated in June 2025. Each one of us will experience something in life that transforms who we are. A human life is one of adventure and tempering.
Ask Ethan: What would the Universe be like without dark matter?

1 week ago | bigthink.com | Ethan Siegel

Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. Here in our own Solar System, it’s normal matter that dominates the massive objects we observe and measure. Humans, planets, moons, and even the Sun are all made up of the same types of ingredients at their core: protons, neutrons, and electrons, bound together into various nuclei, atoms, molecules, and even grander structures.
The price of Christianity's "broken bargain" with democracy

1 week ago | bigthink.com | Stephen Johnson

The most surprising and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every week, for free. Over glasses of merlot in 2003, the journalist Jonathan Rauch was asked about his religious beliefs. He nearly answered “atheist,” then paused. God never made sense to Rauch. As a child in Hebrew school, he went through the motions but was unable to believe. In his teens, he heard pastors on AM radio rail against gay people like himself, calling them “a stench in the nostril of God.” His atheism hardened.
The "SSS" framework: How to change the world with what you have

1 week ago | bigthink.com | Jonny Thomson

A place to pause and reflect on life’s bigger questions, with Big Think’s Jonny Thomson. I ignore a lot of charity fundraisers or canvassers. If I ever go to an event and I see a stand full of leaflets, manned by someone in a brightly colored vest and with an ingratiating grin, I avoid them with a wide berth. Phone out, head down, and “I’m far too terribly busy to talk to you about your charity today, I’m afraid.” I don’t think this is because I’m a bad person.
The mystery of neutrino mass is now smaller than ever

1 week ago | bigthink.com | Ethan Siegel

Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. There are many puzzles out there about the very nature of reality that remain to be solved. Many of the big ones include dark matter, dark energy, the ultimate origin of space and time, and why our Universe is made of normal matter and not an equal amount of antimatter. But even though they’re largely derided as “cosmically unimportant,” the humble neutrino presents a tremendous cosmic mystery as well.