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Mini-personalities: Why Carl Jung believed your “complexes” lead their own inner lives
By Stephen Johnson
“Wow, that’s probably been there for years,” once said a physical therapist as he ran a thumb over a hardened knot in my back. I was surprised. I had noticed muscle tension but never the particular knot that was co...
As print literacy fades, our perception of truth is warping
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Every medium — print, TV, social media — has its own contract with the truth. As we move away from print literacy, we also move away from the conditions for objective truth that it sustains.
Orality and situational truth
Bef...
The greatest living mathematician explains math from scratch
Terence Tao explores the beauty of math, from its humble origins to today's AI frontiers. Here are the 6 ideas that built all of mathematics.
Terence Tao has spent decades solving problems most people can’t even state. And he says he’s nev...
The 2 behaviors that make you socially magnetic
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A few months ago I was queuing for free tacos at my coworking space in London. And because nothing unites people like free food, half the building had shown up. This gave me the opportunity to shamelessly eavesdrop on the group o...
Mapped: The absurd math behind "The Forgotten War"
Between 2.5 and 4 million people died in the Korean War, and for what? South Korea made a net gain of an area the size of Seattle. (Credit: NordNordWest, FriedC, Mnmazur – CC BY-SA 3.0)
By Frank Jacobs
In case you need a reminder th...
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Chandler Fritz is a Contributing Writer for County Highway. He is on staff at The New York Review of Books.
Existential Psychologist | Nostalgia Futurist | EVP and COO at Archbridge Institute
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.
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