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August 8, 2024 at 3:08 PM
I’d like to see this much effort put into knowing why we are awake
March 27, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Thanks much, @bigthink.com, for picking "The Certainty Illusion" as a 2025 fav! 🙏

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January 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Exercise works for depression. So why isn’t it treated like real medicine?
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Exercise works for depression. So why isn’t it treated like real medicine?
The evidence is clear. We just don’t use it properly.
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August 2, 2026 at 7:46 AM
I spoke with @BigThink about why even the most experienced professionals need a coach — including surgeons. It’s one of the most under-utilized ways people improve.
Video: youtu.be/tW7ClAexgHI?...
How to break the hidden limits of expertise | Atul Gawande for Big Think+
YouTube video by Big Think
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November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
*bigthink*
June 29, 2024 at 4:05 AM
Billions of animals are confined, mutilated, and killed because their suffering is treated as less important than our taste.
In this interview with @bigthink.com, I argue that species membership is not what makes suffering matter.

#PeterSinger #BigThink #Philosophy #FactoryFarming #AI
September 19, 2026 at 1:07 PM
How Fascism works.
10 tactics of Fascism
#fascism #bigthink #politics

#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists

👉 Vote 'em Out!
How Fascism works. 10 tactics of Fascism #fascism #bigthink #politics
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September 25, 2026 at 7:38 PM
For this who may have missed it. My interview with @bigthink with the great director @scottderrickson.bsky.social

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"Mystery humbles you": Scott Derrickson on why skepticism and faith aren't enemies
The "Doctor Strange" director explores why faith and skepticism are not enemies but "different languages."
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August 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Is time travel possible? In this interview with
@BigThink
I talk about the possibility of time travel and the problems it raises. youtu.be/q466zz0vMag?... via
@YouTube

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485 likes, 62 comments. "A physicist reveals how time travel is possible | Jim Al-Khalili"
A physicist reveals how time travel is possible | Jim Al-Khalili
YouTube video by Big Think Clips
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April 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM
While I love the silliness of 40K, and Dune “bigthink,” I deeply respect Battletech’s decades-long commitment to no prophecies, gods, or aliens. It’s just us, fucking up over and over, as a reason for big stompy mechs to blow one another up.
In penance, I demand we spend the rest of today posting exclusively about our favorite nerd bullshit. I don't care what it is, I don't care if I personally like it, you're only allowed to talk about your silly special interests with ABSOLUTELY NO BLOOD FEUDS
"Gee Jess, why do you have so many people blocked?"

BECAUSE YOU WON'T STOP ENTHUSIASTICALLY FILLING MY FEED WITH THE MOST ASININE BULLSHIT HUMANS HAVE EVER SAID.
August 9, 2024 at 2:12 AM
"The investment traps that destroy wealth and how to avoid them"

This is the long-form interview I did with BigThink:
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The investment traps that destroy wealth and how to avoid them with Barry Ritholtz | Full Interview
YouTube video by Big Think
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January 4, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Scientists Learn How to Teach Synesthesia (Let the Weirdness Begin) -- via @bigthink

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August 14, 2026 at 11:50 PM
The 250-million year rise and fall of the dinosaurs. The whole epic story of dinosaur and bird evolution!

As condensed into an hour and 45 minutes, in one of the most fun video chats I've ever done, with the brilliant folks at BigThink!

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The mass extinction that accidentally created the dinosaurs | Steve Brusatte
YouTube video by Big Think
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July 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Our Brain Treats Corporations Like Individual People -- via @bigthink

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Our Brain Treats Corporations Like Individual People
New research led by popular neuroscientist David Eagleman demonstrates that our brain reacts to corporate behavior as though individual people were taking action.
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September 24, 2026 at 12:00 AM
hey broho is bigthink here?
June 10, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Forget Stoicism. Skepticism is the ancient philosophy we need today.
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Forget Stoicism. Skepticism is the ancient philosophy we need today.
Skepticism used to be an integral part of any liberal arts education. Here’s why we need to bring it back.
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June 20, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Add BigThink/FreeThink mainstreaming IDW contrarians, "evolutionary" psychologists like Diana “One of my favorite compliments from a man was that I seemed like the product of selective breeding” Fleischman and fossil "progress studies" funded by #AtlasNetwork & Peter Thiel and here we are ...
January 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
No panties where panties should be showing :bigthink:
May 14, 2026 at 11:42 PM
The inner life we’re trading away
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The inner life we’re trading away
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on why reflective self-consciousness separates us from intelligent machines.
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March 28, 2026 at 2:54 AM
But will that make me into a wereyasi :bigthink:
April 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM
We are already living in a Cyberpunk world. The reason why it doesn't look like it is because the cyberpunk aesthetic implies a world with an abundance of metals whereas our world has an abundance of plastics and wood.

#cyberpunk #dystopia #showerthoughts #bigthink #galaxybrain #sotw #aesthetic
January 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Neuroscience Confirms Your Subconscious Shapes Your Reality -- via @bigthink

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Neuroscience confirms your subconscious shapes your reality
Groundbreaking neuroscience confirms what Sigmund Freud first theorized.
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March 31, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Expecting BigThink op-eds from both soon on the fertility crisis and 19th Amendment.
March 6, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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April 19, 2026 at 6:11 PM