Existentialism is great and all, but how can you really relate to the ideas if you don’t think God is dead? Luckily, we’ve got just the thing.
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John Cleese was in super sarcastic form during his recent Reddit AMA.
This has implications for linguistics, biology, musical composition, and even A.I.
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Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Writer Paul Theroux on tyrannical mothers, colonizing Mars, and an important difference between humans and cockroaches.
Can computers be creative? Depends on whether you’re asking it to write music or write a novel.
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The deepest, funniest, strangest moments from the past year of the Think Again podcast. Featuring Kory Stamper, Teju Cole, George Saunders, Slavoj Zizek, Jennifer Doudna, and Timothy Spall.
What does it really mean when something is “Dickensian”? Or “Kafkaesque”? Sometimes these words are overused to the point where they lose their meaning. Here’s how these and 6 other words got their origin.
Astrobiologists took a novel view and used evolutionary processes as their guide.
The thoughts on ruthless leadership by Italian politician and writer Niccolò Machiavelli resonate today.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Writer Ariel Levy on the silence around the animal facts of women’s physical lives, her comically awkward experience with the shamanic hallucinogen Ayahuasca, and much more.
Most marriages end in resentment. Why should longevity be the sole marker of a successful marriage?
First, let me tell you how smart I am. So smart. My fifth-grade teacher said I was gifted in mathematics and, looking back, I have to admit that she was […]
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Author and former Wall Street hedge fund analyst Sheelah Kolhatkar on the reality and the dangers of the financial industry today.
In one of our wildest episodes ever, comedian Jeff Garlin cuts the surprise clip short to call B.S. on neuroscience and complexity.
Today, we are in the golden age of meltdowns. More and more of our systems are in the danger zone, but our ability to manage them hasn’t quite caught up.
The event brought scholars and comedians together to take a look at what’s funny and why.
Student loan debt doesn’t make you undateable. How you handle it might.
Alain De Botton talks about the danger of succumbing to “status anxiety” that leaves you caring too much how others judge your value.
“We don’t notice one another nearly as much as we think we do,” says Alan Alda. Here’s how the actor inspired a scientific study on empathy.
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Those awful almost-changes they made? They could have avoided the whole problem by simply doing the math. Designed for artists, writers, and creatives* of all different persuasions, Patreon has become a […]
What if your car was an extension of yourself? Neuroscience, art, and engineering combine to give us a glimpse of that future.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Actor and author Alan Alda on the art of communication (for good and evil), social anxiety, the mind of a billionaire, and more.
You might think philosophy is a boy’s club. We are here to correct that misconception.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Comedy writer and producer Scott Aukerman on Michael Bolton, transgression in comedy, and cultural turmoil in the USA.
Early states did not form how we’ve been taught, writes James C Scott in his new book. His research offers a clue as to where we might be heading.
The world’s human population is skyrocketing, creating more competition and suffering. Yet few thinkers address a solution. Is there one?
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Turkish-American writer Elif Batuman on truth in fiction, how language shapes us, and more.
“At times, it seems as if we are condemned to try to understand our own time with conceptual frameworks more than half a century old.” Historian Niall Ferguson says it’s time for an update.