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This collection of learning and development quotes serves as a reminder of the meaning and purpose behind this important work.
Laughing is so contagious that we often forget how subjective humor is.
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You can practically see them slipping away. Yes, they’re still in the conversation with you, at least physically, but you know: The other person has disengaged. Who knows where their […]
For many, 2020 will not be remembered as a “best of” much. We don’t need to repeat the reasons here; it’s sufficient to point out that a 100-year pandemic was […]
The friendly side of North Korea. Men at sea, dancing! Monty Python, of course, and more!
Building Big Think from little more than an idea to 30 million monthly visitors, co-founder Victoria Rachel Montgomery-Brown knows something about being an entrepreneur. Her idea, together with co-founder Peter […]
John Cleese was in super sarcastic form during his recent Reddit AMA.
God has a twitter account, and it is full of hilarity as well as deep insights.
The essence of comedy is being critical, says John Cleese, and that means causing offense sometimes. But we shouldn't protect everyone from experiencing negative emotions by enforcing political correctness.
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Just as Shakespeare lifted plots from his predecessors, young performers today ought to focus on emulating those artists they like most.
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If You Work in a Creative Industry, You Should Steal Other People’s Ideas Just as Shakespeare lifted plots from his predecessors, young performers today ought to focus on emulating those […]
The researcher behind the famed Dunning-Kruger Effect has found expertise can lead us to claim impossible knowledge.
A British charity profiled this week by The Guardian takes an outside-the-box approach to helping patients in mental health wards.
Facebook recently announced that it will display warnings beside satirical content. In this post we look at the flaws and implications of recent research on the spread of false information on Facebook.
The second dip of the worldwide recession is a bit like that scene in Monty Python’s Holy Grail, where two guards stupidly stare at a horseless knight approaching in the […]
From stock trading to lawmaking to data-driven school reform, we are becoming increasingly dependent on mathematical models to explain the slippery complexity of human nature.
Brexit lends a renewed poignancy to Gillray's scatological cartoon