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Peter Thiel delivers the keynote address at the 2012 Nantucket Project, arguing that the U.S, is resting on its laurels, and no longer innovating.
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Psychologist Kevin Dutton presents the classic psychological test known as “the trolley problem” with a variation. Take the test and measure you response on the psychopathic spectrum.
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Henry Rollins says “let’s make college tuition either free or really low and if you have a country full of whip-crack smart people you have a country the rest of […]
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Tim Ferriss describes how you can learn lifelong skills, and along the way fundamentally change the way you think about food, in four hours.
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Big Think’s online course, “Great big Ideas,” was produced in partnership with The Jack Parker Corporation.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson says “the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.”
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On a finance panel at The Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas held on Nantucket, Massachusetts in October, Larry Summers tackled the question of whether teutonic monetary virtue or monetary […]
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At The Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas held on Nantucket, Massachusetts in October, a panel comprised of finance heavyweights debated the big issues facing the economy, most notably the […]
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Does President Obama need to learn to speak Republican? He probably will if he wants to be successful in a second term (if elected). Furthermore, you can become a better […]
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Grover Norquist stands to be a major player in the debate over how to face the upcoming fiscal cliff.
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Professor Larry Lessig presents his plan to end cronyism in Washington at The Nantucket Project, a festival of idea on Nantucket, Massachusetts.
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Mark Ruffalo, Co-founder of Water Defense, adresses The Nantucket Project along with Mark Jacobson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and Marco Krapels, co-chairman of Rabobank’s corporate […]
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Why should you bother to wake up tomorrow knowing that we’re all going to die billions and billions of years from now when the universe turns to absolute zero, when […]
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What is collective intelligence? Experts such as Matt Ridley weigh in on the mating of ideas and what it means for our future human prosperity.
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Nature didn’t give us any tools to control our emotions. That is why psychologist Paul Ekman says you need to keep a diary of your emotions, writing what you are […]
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In this first dispatch from Beijing for his new blog on Big Think, artist and political activist Ai Weiwei explains the powerful effects of social media on political freedom in […]
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Today students graduate from college in the U.S. with a mountain of debt and a skill set deficit that leaves them unprepared for the challenges of succeeding in today’s knowledge […]
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Throughout human history people have tried to create utopia, the perfect society. These dreams have not been realized because we have scarcity. However, now we have nanotechnology, and with nanotechnology, […]
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Companies need to be social to be successful. This is a key insight in Maddie Grant’s book Humanize: How People-Centric Organizations Succeed in a Social World, which argues that the […]
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John Seely Brown argues that foregrounding the Humanities is our only hope of sustaining innovation in the United States.
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Lean thinking was a concept that originated in the Japanese car industry in the 1970s but can be applied to the challenges of sustainability and conserving natural resources
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One of the inventions that may be realized by advances in nanotechnology is the creation of a Von Neumann probe, which is essentially a virus, a self-replicating probe that can […]
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Most businesses understand that social media is important, but not necessarily how to use it in their own best interests.
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From an evolutionary standpoint, which traits are most adaptive to a historical moment in which old certainties have vanished and anything is possible? According to Seely Brown, they include bravery, […]
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A panel on technology and sheer courage disrupting autism at the 2012 Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas on Nantucket, MA.
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