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Mind and Behavior
18mins
"There's a long history of people claiming planets which look Earth-like, Earth 2.0, Earth twins."
1hr 18mins
"The more uncertain and scary things get in the world, the more we as humans are drawn to simple dichotomies."
14mins
"Being aware of your mindsets is the difference between living a conscious life, where you're making choices in accord with what you actually want and going where you actually wanna go, versus being on autopilot and having those mindsets subconsciously drive all of your decisions."
"Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a truly foreign language."
Barry Ritholtz — market commentator, founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and podcast host — shares what really trips investors up.
From religious iconography to modern mysticism, the human aura has been a subject of fascination across centuries and cultures.
The founder of GenZ Publishing joins Big Think from the infinitely unfurling confluence of print and digital.
Hugo-winning author Ken Liu explores what early cinema and Chinese poetry can teach us about AI's potential as a new artistic medium.
By looking outside the current wave of hype, we can create a framework for weighing up the practical impact of AI on any business.
Spotify's Co-President, CPO and CTO chats with Big Think about the science of discovery, Swedish innovation, C-suite podcasting, and more.
We understand many things about our Universe, and our home within it, extremely well. The number of stars in the Milky Way isn't among them.
Networking — not zombie-crunching your job applications — gives you a better chance of getting sourced or referred for a role.
The first in a series of short stories by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author that inspired the cult hit "Pantheon."
Those who know who they are — and what they truly value — refuse to compromise their authentic direction to placate others.
Harmony and moderation make for a happier life.
Science writer Matt Ridley joins us to discuss how “Darwin’s strangest idea” makes us all a bit feather-brained (in a good way).
A powerful psychedelic long used in African rituals shows surprising promise for treating traumatic brain injury and PTSD.
11mins
"Everything that we care about, everything we experience, everything we know, we know it through our conscious awareness of it."
Tech expert Peter Leyden argues that we have a historic opportunity to harness AI and other transformative technologies in order to make a much better world over the next 25 years.
7mins
She was searching for perfection - until she discovered what she truly needed by letting go of what didn’t fit.
Unlikely Collaborators
The nature of “the mind” is always vast and clear no matter how swamped by information we feel — and leaders can learn to embrace this space.
When your life’s truth and the reality you live become out of sync, you risk falling into an "anxiety spiral."
13mins
"The truth is that the skills that go into both motivation and manipulation are almost the same skills. The same level of persuasion, the same level of influence, the same level of charisma and dynamic creative thinking drives us to both be manipulated and be motivated."
"Personality isn't based on what we say we'll do. It's rooted in what we actually do, which becomes what we think about."