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The Nantucket Project sees art + commerce as "the new convergence" that defines our world today.

The loudest and largest generation in history, the baby boomers, are older. Their numbers and needs will place unprecedented demands on aging services in a time of workforce shortages and […]

The genomes of tumors can be analyzed, providing "a much better way of deciding what types of treatments to pursue." 

Ask each person individually who benefits more from the relationship. 

Money is just one of the resources that you have available to you like gas that goes in the car. It’s not the car itself. 

Partnerships are always challenging, but that challenge also offers room to create something that you could never have created all alone.

Scientific advances are coming fast and furious, and so it is becoming increasingly important to become familiar with aspects of genomics that will impact routine medical care in profound ways.    

More users of space mean more and better infrastructure to continue to improve the ability of small organizations, students and ordinary people to access the stars. Which means we’d better get used to future rocket launches setting new satellite deployment records and making the skies glitter with ever more little points of light.

California's program is still young and isn’t the world’s first emission trading program, but here are the top four reasons we’re celebrating – and why the global community should, too.

Think of an argument as a collaboration where the two sides are trying to find the right answer.

"The idea is that education is moving away from a centralized physical location and more to somewhere students can learn from anywhere."

It’s a great luxury for a society to take it’s 18 to 21 year olds and to let them develop as thinkers.  

One company intends to shake things up by making images of our world’s surface available to all.

The golden rule of investor partnership: I want to communicate to my investors as I would wish they would communicate to me.

If I were to give you advice on what to tell your daughter, who say, is a 13-years-old adolescent, I would definitely present all kinds of options to her as really valid.  

It is a new world where Machiavellian’s vertical hierarchies have been complemented with horizontal webs and networks.

While the vast majority of mainstream press attention (and capital) focuses on the 1st through 3rdVerticals, some of the real paradigm shifting technologies and approaches may be in the 4th and 5th Verticals. […]

Very often the first piece of information we have about a person is their name. It’s often the first thing you learn about someone and we form judgments about people very rapidly.

A conversation with Matt Arnold, Managing Director and Head of the Office of Environmental Affairs, JPMorgan Chase.

I wrote an article inHarvard Business Review asking why can’t we build a $300 house? Now, why do you need a $300 house?  Just let us look at a simple […]

Back in February I shared my thoughts on Pearson and why I think they should target the market with their own tablet device. Back then the iPad 2 was still […]

Big Think’s online course, “Great big Ideas,” was produced in partnership with The Jack Parker Corporation.

This week’s unveiling of Leo Villareal’s The Bay Lights (shown above), the world’s largest LED sculpture running along 1.8 miles of San Francisco’s Bay Bridge, shone a light on more […]

Big Think would like to congratulate Peter Salovey, who was named the 23rd President of Yale University last week. Since Salovey succeeds Richard C. Levin, whose tenure at Yale lasted […]

When true paradigm shifts occur, as with Cloud Computing and NewSpace, there is no buzz phrase that is more appropriate, stigmatized as it may be. When examining existing and emerging […]

     Dear England,       The British press has had its knickers in a twist over Americans appropriating Britishisms for some time, whingeing about it in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The […]

Since April, we’ve been exploring the intersection of humanity and technology in our Humanizing Technologyseries, an online expo in partnership with Bing. Without a doubt, the series has had an […]

Big Think’s own founder and president Peter Hopkins gave Rahim Kanani at Forbes some face time in preparation for the 2012 Social Innovation Summit taking place next week at the United Nations Headquarters in […]

NASA engineer Adam Steltzner is driving his team to attempt the seemingly impossible.

Big Think is excited to announce Humanizing Technology, a virtual expo in partnership with Bing, whose goal is to identify new technologies that integrate themselves seamlessly into our lives, capitalize on our unique strengths, and amplify the best of human nature.