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This article is part of Big Think’s newest special issue, The Opt-Out Nation.
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The psychology of solitude, perversion, and AI companionship
Psychologist Paul Bloom examines why loneliness feels like starvation, why people are drawn to behaving poorly, and why revenge feels righteous until it destroys everything.
Psychologist Paul Bloom has spent his career studying the parts o...
Stories of American exit in the nation's 250th year
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The digital version of our special issue for summer 2026 is out today! It’s called The Opt-Out Nation — a collection of stories about the very American drive to walk away: from monarchy, from conformity, and, sometimes, f...
He won a major short story prize. Then he was accused of using AI.
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By Jasna Hodžić
Ealier this year, Jamir Nazir, a retired Trinidadian civil servant with no public writing career to speak of, won both the regional and overall Commonwealth Short Story Prize for “The Serpent in the Grov...
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Learn from the world's biggest thinkers.
Writing a book about animals for National Geographic -- SORT OF FUNNY FIELD GUIDES (2025). Science writer with words in Nat Geo, Washington Post, NYT. Project fellow at the MIT Knight Science Journalism Program, National Geographic Explorer.
Medical Doctor, Professor of genetic epidemiology at KCL, best-selling author, director of TwinsUK, and co-founder of ZOE, the health science company.
Author of The Power of Habit and Supercommunicators, and journalist at The New Yorker Magazine (and previously at the New York Times.) Also, for one terrifying day in 1999, a bike messenger in San Francisco.
I explain ideas. I write for Big Think. I run the Mini Philosophy social network.
Explore the cosmos with astrophysicist and author Dr. Ethan Siegel! From the origin of everything to the fate of the universe, Ethan and Big Think are here to answer your biggest questions.
Hypercurious :) Neuroscientist, founder of Ness Labs & author of Tiny Experiments, a guide to living a more experimental life.
A dedicated space for exploring the books and ideas that shape our world.
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Author of The Explorer's Gene and Endure, Outside columnist, Globe & Mail, ex-physicist, not-quite-sub-4 miler.
Kevin is the books editor at Big Think. He holds a master’s in English and writing, and his articles have appeared in Agenda, RealClearScience, and the Washington Post.
Francesca Tighinean is a psychology educator with over 3 million followers, host of The Francesca Psychology Podcast, and an upcoming Hay House author.
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