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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Theory of mind: What chess and drug dealers can teach you about manipulation

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 June 2022. It was updated in March 2025. The greatest tacticians are those who think ahead. Chess grandmasters, famous generals, great world leaders, and mafia dons all share one skill: They are all many more steps ahead than their rivals. We each have the ability to think ahead.
How scientists unearthed the cosmic catastrophe that paved the way for humanity

1 week ago | bigthink.com | Govert Schilling

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people Excerpted from Target Earth: Meteorites, Asteroids, Comets, and Other Cosmic Intruders That Threaten Our Planet by Govert Schilling. Published by The MIT Press. Copyright 2025. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. It’s not something you think about every day, but we owe our existence to a catastrophic cosmic impact.
Why the people who actually drive history aren't in the textbooks

1 week ago | bigthink.com | Jonny Thomson

A place to pause and reflect on life’s bigger questions, with Big Think’s Jonny Thomson. History is often told through the stories of individuals. We have movies about kings, YouTube videos about generals, books about inventors, and talks about revolutionaries. These are the Great Men (almost always men) whose names headline the textbooks: Napoleon, Darwin, Gandhi, Churchill.
Science's value, unlike NASA, cannot be destroyed by politics

1 week ago | bigthink.com | Ethan Siegel

Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all It should be every scientist’s greatest fear: that 2025, in the United States, will mirror very closely what happened in Nazi Germany in 1933. In the 1920s and 1930s, physics and mathematics in Germany was second-to-none. Einstein achieved his great successes in Germany, and was lauded as a national hero for his work on relativity, quantum physics, the equivalence of mass and energy, and more.
Is it too late for us to slow climate warming?

1 week ago | bigthink.com | Hannah Ritchie

HANNAH RITCHIE: For me personally, I tend to think that the 1.5 degree target is no longer feasible. I think the key point is that doesn't mean game over. For every increment of warming, the risk of climate change increase. So that means that we need to fight for 1.6, and 1.7 and 1.8, because it reduces the risks and impacts of climate change. - [Narrator] Are the goals set by the Paris Agreement still achievable?
Science's best answer to "where did the Universe come from?"

1 week ago | bigthink.com | Ethan Siegel

Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all We’ve all had a moment, at some point in our lives, where we began to wonder about things greater than ourselves. What were things like before we came into existence? What were they like before our parents, grandparents, or even any human came into existence? Was there a time before life on Earth or even planet Earth itself existed? What about the Sun? What about any stars or planets at all?
The Morissa Schwartz interview: AI and the new media landscape

1 week ago | bigthink.com | Mike Hodgkinson

Learn from the world’s biggest business thinkers To those who contend that the publishing business is no less fractured than our broadly polarized media allegiances — post-literate digital natives in one tribe, regressive champions of the analog in the other — Morissa Schwartz offers a layer of connective and restorative tissue.
See NASA's most important image in space telescope history

1 week ago | bigthink.com | Ethan Siegel

Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all 35 years ago, NASA launched its first great observatory: the Hubble Space Telescope. When it achieved first light, a huge problem appeared: its optics were flawed. This spherical aberration flaw kept Hubble images from achieving their designed sharpness. To correct this, a servicing mission was flown in December of 1993. One huge upgrade was COSTAR’s installation: a corrective optics package.
Epiphenomenalism: One of philosophy's most disturbing ideas

1 week 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 September 2022. It was updated in March 2025. What if you don’t matter? What if all of your thoughts, precious feelings, great dreams, and terrible fears are completely, utterly, spectacularly irrelevant?
Are large language models dyslexic?

1 week ago | bigthink.com | Louis Rosenberg

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people Like millions of Americans, I am dyslexic. You would probably never know, unless you happen to be sitting in the passenger seat of my car and find yourself yelling “I said left!” as I oddly turn right. Then, if you ask me why I turned the wrong way, you will be unable to comprehend that I just can’t remember which side is my right and which is my left. It is simply impossible for me. I know this makes no sense.