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“Dune: Part One” screenwriter Eric Roth spoke with Big Think about the challenges of bringing Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic to the big screen.
Aragon AI CEO Wesley Tian tells Big Think Business how he took his company from initial conception, through acceleration, to the scaling phase.
Sabine Hossenfelder talks about Albert Einstein, dead grandmothers, the physics of aging, and more in this full interview with Big Think.
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Katie Kermode — a memory athlete with four world records — tells Big Think about her unique spin on an ancient technique to memorize unfathomably long lists of information.
Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.
Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.
New research from Big Think+ sheds light on why employees can find the act of providing feedback to be intimidating, and how L&D can ease this fear by elevating feedback beyond pure evaluation.
In a guest essay for Big Think Business, Pedro Franceschi — co-founder and co-CEO of Brex — explains why deftly navigating between vision and details is crucial for successful leaders.
Purposeful, passionate, and bold, these Big Think+ experts have made important contributions to human thought and to the history of ideas.
A physicist, a psychologist, and a philosopher walk into a bar and discuss a framework for thinking better in the 21st century.
Big Think guest writer Rory Stewart — former UK Secretary of State for International Development and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast — made a profound discovery about leadership while working with GiveDirectly.
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Jeremy Johnson — co-founder of the talent network Andela — reflects on leadership in the age of remote work and AI.
Executive coach Jodi Wellman explains how to “make it to the end with no regrets.”
Nestor Maslej, research manager at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), talks us through key findings in the 2024 AI Index Report.
Veteran investor Sujal Patel, co-founder and CEO of Nautilus Biotechnology, helps us sift golden nuggets from the loose shale of entrepreneurship.
Psychologist Mary C. Murphy explains why growth-mindset teams outperform those centered around a lone genius.
Organizational scientist Steven Rogelberg discusses the common meeting mistakes leaders make and how they can change course.
In our competitive world, fortune does not appear to favor the humble — but a strong counter-narrative is emerging.
According to neuropsychologist Julia DiGangi, no one can live a life free of emotional pain. We can only choose how those emotions empower us.
Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.
Psychologist Noel Brick shares the mental techniques we can use to improve our performance on and off the field.
“Only a narcissist would want to become president.” This is the psychology of an authoritarian unpacked.
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Human thinking is antiquated.
You know ChatGPT, but how much do you know about the company that made it? Journalist Karen Hao joins us to talk OpenAI’s latest implosion.
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People are having less sex than ever. 3 experts explain the keys to maintaining a passionate relationship.
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Public mass shooters almost always have worldviews shaped by the “3 Rs”: rage, resentment, and revenge.
Voltaire’s wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
“I hope we take a mindset where we are willing to look for weird life in weird places.”