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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Ask Ethan: What puzzles can the Vera Rubin Observatory help solve?

1 day ago | bigthink.com | Ethan Siegel

Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. Out there in the Universe, there are both discoveries just waiting to be made and cosmic puzzles just waiting to be solved. We have an incredibly robust picture of our cosmos, at present.
Busting the top 5 myths about the Big Bang

2 days ago | bigthink.com | Ethan Siegel

Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. The Universe we know today, filled with stars and galaxies across the great cosmic abyss, hasn’t been around forever. Despite the fact that there are several trillions of galaxies visible to us, spanning distances of tens of billions of light-years, there’s a limit to how far away we can look.
JWST discovers how we're able to see the Universe at all

3 days ago | bigthink.com | Ethan Siegel

Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. Although it’s shown us the Universe as we’ve never seen it before — deeper, earlier, and at longer wavelengths — it’s important to remember that the main goals of JWST didn’t have anything to do with the quality of pictures it would acquire, but rather for the science questions that they’d reveal the answer to.
You can't do your own research without doing your homework first

4 days ago | bigthink.com | Ethan Siegel

Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. Most of us, in the modern world, make countless decisions in our daily lives without much thought, and for good reason. We don’t have the ability — the time or energy necessary — to devote ourselves to fact-checking every decision that we make. Is the tap water safe to drink, or to shower in, today? We assume that it is without bothering to check. Is your seat belt fastened when you get into the car?
The Snorre Kjesbu interview: “Collaboration will become truly immersive”

4 days ago | bigthink.com | Mike Hodgkinson

Learn from the world’s biggest business thinkers. Snorre Kjesbu is clear about how work-life collaboration should evolve once AI and augmented reality make good their union and reshape our meetings forever. “It’s not just about replicating reality,” he tells Big Think.
JWST captures its most extreme gravitational lens ever

5 days ago | bigthink.com | Ethan Siegel

Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. All throughout the Universe, gravity reigns supreme. Its unavoidable effects create massive, bound structures within our expanding Universe. JWST’s first science image unveiled a spectacular galaxy cluster. With under a day of observations, impressive new features were revealed. Many background objects get gravitationally lensed, enhancing and distorting their features.
Ask Ethan: Is the Hubble tension a real problem?

1 week ago | bigthink.com | Ethan Siegel

Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. There’s a mystery over how quickly the Universe is expanding, and it doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon. Back in the early 2000s, after decades of astronomers arguing over whether the expansion rate of the Universe was closer to 50 km/s/Mpc or 100 km/s/Mpc, the Hubble Key Project was completed.
3 ways to have more meaningful conversations

1 week ago | bigthink.com | Jonny Thomson

A place to pause and reflect on life’s bigger questions, with Big Think’s Jonny Thomson. It’s common to moan about the eroding effects of technology. I won’t win any originality prizes for saying social media, smartphones, and short-form video content have been somewhat corrosive to our collective psychology. One thing I often think about is what daily life looked like before modern technology. I don’t just mean before the internet and iPhones—I mean before TVs, radios, and even the lightbulb.
Is the Hubble tension real? Exclusive interview with Wendy Freedman

1 week ago | bigthink.com | Ethan Siegel

Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. One of the greatest discoveries in all of modern science was that of the expanding Universe. It led us to the notion of the Big Bang, gave us insight into our cosmic origins and ultimate fate, and helped us ultimately discover the unexpected existence of dark energy.
Video: NASA's PUNCH mission sees the Sun's corona in action

1 week ago | bigthink.com | Ethan Siegel

Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. Here on Earth, we think about the Sun in an overwhelmingly positive way. It’s the giver of nearly all light and energy received on Earth’s surface, and the primary driver of life on our planet. The process of photosynthesis requires the Sun, and the day/night cycle signals to organisms when to wake and when to sleep.