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Big Think spoke with historian Marc-William Palen about the egalitarian aims of the free-trade movement in past centuries.
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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.
Big Think covered the 2012 study shortly after it was published. We are now correcting the record.
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Aragon AI CEO Wesley Tian tells Big Think Business how he took his company from initial conception, through acceleration, to the scaling phase.
Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.
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.
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.
Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.
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.
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.
A physicist, a psychologist, and a philosopher walk into a bar and discuss a framework for thinking better in the 21st century.
Jeremy Johnson — co-founder of the talent network Andela — reflects on leadership in the age of remote work and AI.
Purposeful, passionate, and bold, these Big Think+ experts have made important contributions to human thought and to the history of ideas.
Eric Siegel, Co-Founder & CEO, Gooder AI, argues machine learning (ML) projects go astray because their stakeholders focus too often on the technological fireworks — the “rocket science” of predictive models.
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Meet the scientist mixing mentalism with principles from positive psychology and the science of human potential.
Semyon Dukach — founding partner of VC firm One Way Ventures — adds balance to the founder mode debate.
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.
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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 his latest book, Malcolm Gladwell explores a strange phenomenon of group dynamics.
In our competitive world, fortune does not appear to favor the humble — but a strong counter-narrative is emerging.