Companies are favoring multitool graduates with broad skill sets

In Miami and elsewhere, the wealthy are moving in increasingly private spheres, shelling out big money to bypass the indignities of public life

After a decades long hiatus, nuclear weapons surge back to the forefront of global politics Somewhat related? The U.S. bid to control the western hemisphere Also related: comparing U.S. and China drones

Since devoting nearly all of its profits to climate and nature in late 2022, the company has given away an extra $180 million

FCC chair Brendan Carr is on a crusade to manipulate the airwaves.

Human brains were not meant to think about trillions of dollars.

DM Is it true that President Obama and Harry Reid (by choosing to tamper with, and fracture, the filibuster) set the stage for our prevailing Supreme Court imbalance, ...and thus for years to come? This is a debated question with legitimate arguments on different sides. The case that Reid's move contributed: In 2013, Harry Reid eliminated the filibuster for most presidential nominations (lower court judges, executive appointments) but specifically preserved it for Supreme Co

In “Fateful Hours,” the road map to authoritarian disaster is laid out in gleamingly sinister detail by the German historian Volker Ullrich.

U.S. economic fate looks tied to AI—for better or worse

Qasem Waleed is a 28-year-old physicist who has lived in Gaza his whole life. In 2024, he joined a chorus of Palestinians sharing videos and pictures and writing about the chaos and violence they were living through, as Israel’s military bombardment devastated their lives. But Qasem was trying to describe his reality through the lens of the most notoriously confusing and inscrutable field of science ever, quantum mechanics. We talked to him, from a cafe near the Al-Mawasi sec

The modern world has been transformed by inventions from the electric motor to penicillin. Is the mass-produced gun the most important among them?

Machines could soon help elders get out of bed, bathe them, even provide them with emotional support.

Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. Maybe I could be that person—if only I could get my colleagues to shut up and stop lying. Thanks Kimberly!

NASA’s Caleb Scharf talks with Big Think about life’s long experiment in expansion.

“​​I vowed after The Civil War not to do any more war films,” says the master documentarian. “It hurt too much.” Lucky for us, he couldn’t keep his promise—paving the way for  The American Revolution, premiering this month on PBS.

Books like ‘Lean In’ encouraged women to privilege career advancement over family. But did the result put some on a road to burnout?

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Entrepreneurs typically have no shortage of passion, heart, and vision. But at Stanford University, Huggy Rao says there are other elements that may matter more when it comes to whether their projects succeed or fail. His research finds that visionaries often flounder not because they lack passion, but because they forget to take into account the planning, preparation and precision that is needed for real success. This week, we’ll examine how this problem shapes not just indi

At this year’s climate summit, the United States is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment.

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