Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

Happy 4th of July

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

Like most of you, I’m off to enjoy a long-weekend. Posting will be sporadic.

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

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The Christian Toetzke interview: “Work is not work: it’s my life”

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Business

Barry Ritholtz on luck, humility, and how (not) to invest

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The Future

What a historian in 2100 might say about Trump’s America

Trump may make America great again — just not in the way he had intended.

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The Past

The long history of the human aura

From religious iconography to modern mysticism, the human aura has been a subject of fascination across centuries and cultures.

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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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