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Stanford scientists create technology that could help severely paralyzed people communicate.

When science funding goes down we have to make tough choices in deciding what gets funded, that should be easy, right? Too bad great ideas often come as a total surprise. 

Are you a maverick or are you a mouse? Author Julian Guthrie brings us one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time in ‘How to Make a Spaceship’.

The CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation lays out three tools to boost innovative ideas and re-draw the frontiers of business and creativity.

Apple’s removal of the iPhones 3.4 mm headphone jack is causing an uproar as part of technology’s inexorable march forward.

Science’s signature moves share something with good poetry. Good metaphor-making can make geniuses of both kinds. But bad metaphors can mislead whole fields.  

How a telescope 100 times the size of Hubble is going to change everything. “For my confirmation, I didn’t get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like […]

Many smart folk need to relearn what Trump knows, and Aristotle taught, about persuasion. Logic and facts alone often don’t persuade. 

Entrepreneurs share enormous amounts of time together, and develop a unique brand of intimacy, says relationship expert Esther Perel.

The famous inventor Nikola Tesla shared his views on dieting and exercising that helped him think better and live longer.

Think Again – a Big Think Podcast With Experimental Philosopher Jonathon Keats on Buckminster Fuller, Vicarious Sex, Taboos and How to Get Around Them

Media strategist, writer, and college drop-out Ryan Holiday questions whether college is just an expensive way to go through the motions.

How you perform on an individual task — an exam or project at work — does not predict longterm success as well as a behavior called “grit.” So what is grit, and how can we use it to succeed?

Psychologist and writer Maria Konnikova on how to out-smart a con artist.

Ex-FBI crisis negotiator Chris Voss explains the golden question that will give you the upper hand in a negotiation.

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains what’s so completely mind-blowing about the great mind of Sir Isaac Newton.

Today’s video is part of a series on genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival.

Take a deep breath, you’re in for a ride. Here is Penn Jillette on Libertarianism, taxes, Trump, Clinton, Sanders, Gary Johnson, sex, drugs and Kurt Cobain.

In a world that’s always connected, we give away an essential part of our selves with constant distractions.

Big Think is proud to partner with the 92nd Street Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival to bring you an in-depth look at the many qualities and characteristics of genius.

The smartest humans in history are ranked.

John Eliot Gardiner looks at what we know if Johan Sebastian Bach’s argumentative life.

Today’s video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival.

Today’s video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival.

Today’s video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival.

Today’s video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival.

If you can’t break through a wall, you climb over it. Janna Levin, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College, points to three genius scientists who embraced limitations.

There’s never been a more important time to be aware of how the fate of the Earth depends on us. “We only have one planet that serves as an example and […]

Mathematician Dr. Hannah Fry tells the story of zero, a genius idea that transformed human progress.

Today’s video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival.