A British charity profiled this week by The Guardian takes an outside-the-box approach to helping patients in mental health wards.
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Life coach and author Tara Sophia Mohr shares her insight on the strategies necessary for helping girls reach their full leadership potential.
How do you erase something that has gone viral, like a meme? The idea pits our right to privacy against a community that’s hungry to share. So, how do we even begin to police it?
Andrew McAfee of the MIT Sloan School of Management discusses the concept of creative destruction, which explains the phenomenon of automation simultaneously wiping out existing industries while creating new ones in their place.
Teaching Girls to See Themselves as Leaders, with Tara Sophia Mohr In order to guide young women to achieve their full leadership potential, life coach and author Tara Sophia Mohr […]
The OkCupid co-founder has authored a best-selling book that analyzes user data from social media and dating sites to draw conclusions about modern human behavior.
Today’s featured Big Think interview is about hacking… but probably not the sort of hacking you’d expect. Learning expert Elliott Masie explains how Hackathons can help teams develop creative solutions.
Xapo CEO Wences Casares calls Bitcoin “maybe the most important social experiment going on right now” that could one day replace the gold standard.
The heralded economist and Harvard president emeritus explains why the price of oil is dropping in North America. He also discusses how American energy independence can’t be achieved just by reducing reliance on foreign oil.
A good leader surrounds him- or herself with the brightest team possible.
Sam Harris is embarrassed by the word “spirituality” because of its past misuse as a religious term. Despite its spooky etymology though, he argues that there’s no better word in the English language to describe one’s personal and intimate exploration of human consciousness.
Is working from home good for business? A recent study has found that it is: productivity goes up, staff turn-over goes down, and job-satisfaction increases.
It’s useful to have a strategy for saying “no” to people trying to connect over e-mail without coming off as callous or cold.
Exercises that call for people to blindfold themselves in order to experience what it’s like to be blind may hurt perceptions of those who are disabled rather that help those with sight understand.
NASA represents a full 50% of the world’s expenditures on space science & exploration. What should we expect from it? “This Administration has never really faced up to where we […]
Wise Women Rise to the Top There’s a big difference between being smart and being wise, and also being intelligent, frankly, says futurist Edie Weiner. Why We Need More Women […]
PURPOSE: Set Goals, with John Amaechi In this lesson from Big Think+, NBA basketball player John Amaechi shares with you the plan he created as a child to help him […]
The NBA gathers massive amounts of gameplay information through special cameras installed in its 29 arenas. Over the past several years, teams have learned to glean insight from the data and apply it to on-the-court strategy.
The biographer evaluates the current state of technology-based communities and suggests that future innovations will completely revolutionize the way we write books.
They’re our best measurement of dark energy, even better than supernovae! “If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”–Philip K. Dick Imagine you’re looking […]
During a recent bout with depression, comedian Ruby Wax took time off from her career to pursue a Master’s degree in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy from Oxford University.
Far from using Islam as a mere facade for bloodlust the Islamic State’s interpretations of Koranic teachings are fundamental to its mission.
Trying to enact change is hard, particularly when the culture you want shifted is arranged in a way that promotes the status quo.
Ridicule, says Frank, was one of his greatest weapons in Congress. The retired Massachusetts congressman shares how humor can help win friends and arguments.
In today’s Washington Post, a successful writer and former teacher offers a simple quiz for teachers to determine whether they’re cut out for the position.
David Butler, vice president of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Coca-Cola, speaks to the harms that befall big companies that refuse to adapt to remain relevant.
The planet’s life expectancy is up to 71.5 years according to a new study. This is a six-year improvement from 1990.
The nonprofit sector is unfairly geared toward large, mainstream organizations that take in the most money but don’t adequately engage with the people most affected by a problem.
Big Think expert Nicholas Negroponte believes that access to education is a human right. He also believes that the internet is integral to a 21st century education. Therefore, access to the internet is a human right.