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Our summer print issue is here!
Inside are stories of opting out in many forms:
■ Clay Routledge explores why Gen Z is opting out of an always-on digital world @clayroutledge
■ Thomas Moynihan shares two sci-fi visions that reveal how the drive to opt out of human obligations can escalate @nemocentric
■ Kmele Foster interviews Dan Carlin on why Americans are opting out of existing political parties @kmele @hardcorehistory
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How did the universe begin? | Big Think Explainers @marvinliyanage
The first video from our new Big Think Explainer series (in collaboration with Pop Chart).
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Buy the poster: buff.ly/nVeIxzo
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Big Think retweeted
“Donnie Darko” offers a time travel lesson you won’t find elsewhere
The movie "Donnie Darko" first came out 25 years ago.
How does the time travel in the story stack up against what physics actually understands?
bigthink.com/starts-with-a-b…
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The co-inventor of CRISPR on what it's built, and what it costs | Jennifer Doudna
Made in partnership with the John Templeton Foundation @templeton_fdn
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Watch Doudna's interview on The Well, our collaboration with @templeton_fdn: piped.video/SbANEPkLe4Y
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The truth about back pain | Rachel Zoffness
Dr. Rachel Zoffness is a pain scientist and the author of "Tell Me Where It Hurts". In this clip from our longer interview she explains the shocking fact that 90% of chronic back pain has no structural cause. Our current model and treatment for back pain is built on a myth that pain = tissue damage.
The truth is that pain is biopsychosocial. It's affected by your emotional state, your expectations, how much you slept, and the quality of the relationships you have.
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How to analyze your beliefs | Jonny Thomson @philosophyminis
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The placebo effect is increasing | Rachel Zoffness @drzoffness @marvinliyanage
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Big Think retweeted
Introducing Cosmos Ventures.
@_MattMandel and I are launching Fund I with $77.6M to back philosopher-builders founding institutions for the AI age.
We’ve invested in AIUC (@aiunderwriting), @PrimeIntellect, Workshop Labs (acquired by @ThinkyMachines), and a stealth education company. Our LPs include @reidhoffman, @jliemandt, @StandTogether, @fredwilson, @mickymalka, and @AsteraInstitute.
AI is creating the biggest opening for institution-builders since the American founding. We are here to back the founders who take it.
Our thesis: Dare to Found.
nitter.net/cosmos_vc/status/21002…
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Where does pain come from? | Rachel Zoffness @drzoffness @marvinliyanage
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How we think about pain is wrong.
We assume pain = tissue damage.
Something in our body is broken — that’s where pain comes from.
We treat pain with surgery or pain drugs.
Not only has that gone horribly wrong...but it’s an insufficient understanding of how pain works.
The truth is pain is created by your brain.
90% of back pain isn’t correlated to actual tissue damage.
Pain is dependent on biopsychosocial ingredients like sleep, emotions, stress, and even our thoughts.
That means just learning about pain can change the pain we feel.
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The full Curiosity Lab interview with Marvin Liyanage @marvinliyanage and Dr. Rachel Zoffness @drzoffness is out now for members on bigthink.com.
You can become a Big Think Member here: buff.ly/NHvVpUY
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