Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

Al-‘Ujayri’s Mother

Gregory Johnsen

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Also for those interested in videos, you can watch al-‘Ujayri’s mother on a new program on Yemeni television.

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Neuropsych

Inside a neuroscientist’s quest to cure coma

Locked inside their minds, thousands await a cure. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is racing to find it.

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Mini Philosophy

Why the people who actually drive history aren’t in the textbooks

Follow the money and you’ll follow history.

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Business

The Morissa Schwartz interview: AI and the new media landscape

The founder of GenZ Publishing joins Big Think from the infinitely unfurling confluence of print and digital.

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High Culture

The cinematograph, the “noematograph,” and the future of AI art

Hugo-winning author Ken Liu explores what early cinema and Chinese poetry can teach us about AI’s potential as a new artistic medium.

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Business

The Gustav Söderström interview: Spotify and the psychology of taste

Spotify’s Co-President, CPO and CTO chats with Big Think about the science of discovery, Swedish innovation, C-suite podcasting, and more.

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