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Today we have members of four generations working side by side. That’s great for diversity, inclusion, perspective, and innovation. It also produces new challenges with regard to communication.

In Japan, kawaii, the love of cuteness, is both culture and science, and it’s taking over the world.

Humanity’s languages and moralities evolved for social coordination. And for productive teamwork. Our moral sense, our social-rule processors, work just like our language-rule processors.   

Google has announced final design plans for the first modular smartphone, the project Ara. However, Dave Hakkens, who nurtured this idea for a modular device, isn’t happy with the final product.

We surprise the world’s brightest minds with ideas they’re totally unprepared to discuss. This week on Big Think’s podcast, we’re joined by poet and educator Clint Smith. 

Flexible work schedules aren’t the rarity that they used to be. Some of the biggest companies now allow their employees to set their own schedules, with pretty interesting results.

Waverly Labs has developed a universal language translator that sits in your ear. It’s called the Pilot.

Wonder how your brain makes space for new memories? Scientists at Oxford just discovered how. 

Google’s DeepMind and the Future of Humanity Institute are trying to find a way for human operators to stay in control if artificial intelligence starts acting out. 

The author and activist explores the well-intentioned, yet harmful way members of the left prioritize tolerance over reform within Islam.

The smart workplace assuages the fears of its employees by offering the sorts of benefits that retain the best talent.

In a world where women are having children later in life, we are faced with new questions in reproductive ethics. Here we ask, “Do children have a right to be loved by grandparents?”

[A Top 15 Podcast on iTunes!] We surprise the world’s brightest minds with ideas they’re totally unprepared to discuss. This week on Big Think’s podcast, we’re joined by renowned physicist and author Brian Greene. 

If you’re the kind of person who chronically abandons New Year’s resolutions, try “temptation bundling” in 2016.

We surprise the world’s brightest minds with ideas they’re not at all prepared to discuss. Check out our promo and subscribe now. Episode 1 launches 6/20/15.

If we look to the distant future, with unlimited technology, how far could we reach? “Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I […]

“Today, like it or not, we’re all in sales,” says Dan Pink for Big Think+. Recognizing this is the first step to mastering the essential art of persuasion.

I scored an exclusive interview with Dave Reitze, the executive director of LIGO. Take a trip inside his Universe. “When I was in high school, I was certain that being […]

If you knew the flu was going around your office, wouldn’t it be nice to work at home for the day?

So, he helped fund a nonprofit.

Scientists don’t always use normal words when explaining their research to the public. Here’s a quick and easy to guide to understanding those words for people who aren’t scientists.

We surprise the world’s brightest minds with ideas they’re totally unprepared to discuss. This week on Big Think’s podcast, we’re joined by beloved actor/educator Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Before Oprah or Martha Stewart, Berg built an empire around her name.

The apple of American politics never falls too far from the tree. 

It’s time for companies to rethink how they engage with their employees.

All remaining research chimps will be retired and relocated to sanctuaries.

Emotional hacking is real with implications toward mental health. What if this got into the wrong hands? We could be joyously enslaved without the emotional countenance to fight back.   

What will the city of the future look like? Alphabet’s Sidewalk labs plans to find out. The company will soon present plans to Alphabet CEO Larry Page for building a techno-utopia from the ground up.

If you expected them to be like Earth’s dunes, prepare to be surprised! “Actually I think Art lies in both directions — the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand […]

Though perhaps not the most pressing, believe it or not.