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Is resilience actually making us weaker? Inside our latest print issue, The Roots of Resilience: ⬤ A neuroscientist's perspective on when resilience backfires @neuranne ⬤ What we can learn from daffodils about outliving the winter @philosophyminis ⬤ How Tommy Caldwell lost a finger, survived a kidnapping, and became a rock climbing legend @tommycaldwell1

What could life on other planets look like? Thomas Moynihan explores speculative evolution and what it might tell us about life on other planets. Read the full article: bigthink.com/history-societ…

Can psychedelics be tools for the brain? | Rachel Yehuda @RachelYehuda

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Is resilience actually making us weaker? Inside our latest print issue, The Roots of Resilience: ⬤ A neuroscientist's perspective on when resilience backfires @neuranne ⬤ What we can learn from daffodils about outliving the winter @philosophyminis ⬤ How Tommy Caldwell lost a finger, survived a kidnapping, and became a rock climbing legend @tommycaldwell1

How do you build a top performer? Neuroscientist Rachel Barr @drrachelbarr interviews David Epstein @davidepstein, the author of the bestselling book Range, to understand what we get wrong about top performers. Read the full article: bigthink.com/smart-skills/s…

Why we aren't going out anymore | Derek Thompson @DKThomp

Lost technologies and the secrets they hold, in 53 minutes | Sam Kean: Full Interview @sam_kean

Kristin Houser shares 5 books that predicted the future of biology. Read the full article: bigthink.com/books/sci-fi-f… 🎨 Sarah Soryal

This is the key that will finally unlock the mystery: "Because we can’t access or measure #consciousness in the same way we do with other physical variables, its causal influence on the physical substrates of our body appears as bursts of unpredictability" Onwards!

What makes someone a psychopath? | Abigail Marsh @aa_marsh

Love is a skill, not a feeling | Alain de Botton: Full Interview @TheSchoolOfLife

The uncomfortable question you should ask on every first date | Alain de Botton @TheSchoolOfLife

Your attachment style was shaped before you turned 10 | Alain de Botton @TheSchoolOfLife

Why relationships in 2026 carry impossible expectations | Alain de Botton @TheSchoolOfLife

Understanding the distance to the Sun | Brian Cox @profbriancox

Alain de Botton’ın çok şahane @bigthink konuşmasından bazı alıntılar; “Hepimiz yanlış kişilerle evleneceğiz ve bu bir sorun değildir. Uyumluluk, aşkın bir önkoşulu değil; aşkın meyvesidir. Önemli olan mükemmel kişiyi bulmak değil, zorluklar karşısında merakla, sabırla ve mizahla “tamir etmeyi” bilmektir. İyi bir partner, sorunlar çıktığında duvar örmeyen; dinlemeyi ve ilişki üzerinde çalışmayı kabul eden kişidir. Yalnızlıktan kurtulmanın yolu, kırılganlıklarımızı paylaşmaktır. Gerçek dostluk neşeli bir kulüp değil; üzüntüleri, kayıpları ve zayıflıkları itiraf edebilme becerisidir. İyi bir yaşamın tanımı ise bir başka insana köprü kurabilmek; saygı, alçakgönüllülük ve cömertlikle onun kalbini görebilmektir.”

Why culture beats technology | Daphne Koller @daphnekoller

Why people sabotage relationships | Alain de Botton @TheSchoolOfLife

How an AI chip war could destroy the global economy | Chris Miller: Full Interview @crmiller1

How social are our identities? Jonny Thomson speaks and philosopher Kwame Anthony Appian @KAnthonyAppiah explore the tyrannous grip of expreme identity politics. Read the full article: bigthink.com/mini-philosoph…