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According to Jaron Lanier, the right way to understand Alan Turing’s famous “Turing Test” is to understand that it “began in the mind of somebody who was in a deeply, […]
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Ann Veneman has broken so many glass ceilings that she is understandably asked about it often. After all, she must have had a very clear career plan. And yet, Veneman […]
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How Magical Thinking Controls Our Lives (For Better and Worse) – Matthew Hutson LIVE on Big Think TV
In this live interview, Matthew Hutson discusses the ideas in his new book The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking.
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“Be yourself” can seem like risky advice in a competitive job market. But you know what’s riskier? Being nobody. Apple Ad Man Ken Segall explains how he followed his passion […]
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The former Black Flag frontman opens up about his early life and the risks he took to get where he is today.
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Mercedes Rosalba Aráoz Fernández has observed that women leaders, herself included, tend to collaborate more openly and distribute power more liberally than males do. The not-very-surprising result, she says, is […]
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Big Think Chief Economist Daniel Altman explains the benefits and the difficulties of taxing so-called “externalities,” such as carbon emissions.
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Big Think’s Jason Gots talks with Maddie Grant, co-founder of social media consulting firm Socialfish and co-author of the book Humanize, about how social media is reshaping business and organizational […]
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The philosopher on why Melancholia is actually an optimistic movie.
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Radiolab uses cutting edge audio tech and ancient storytelling techniques to evoke wonder in an entirely new way.
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Ten ways you can cut food addiction by changing the information going in your body and upgrading your biological software.
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According to Bill Nye, if you stop exploring, you’re not going to move forward as a species. Your country’s economy will also fall behind. After all, space exploration stimulates the […]
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Rebecca MacKinnon is a founding member of the Global Network Initiative, a multi-stakeholder initiative to advance principles of freedom of expression and privacy in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) […]
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The future of film is collaborative storytelling, says Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards.
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People in positions of power need to be committed to increasing the representation of women on boards and in other leadership roles, or it won’t happen, says Monique Leroux.
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There’s a big difference between being smart and being wise, and also being intelligent, frankly, says futurist Edie Weiner.
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Donald Rumsfeld reflects on his over 50 year career in public service with Big Think — the highs and the lows, the challenges and the triumphs. From his call to […]
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We don’t really want what we think we desire, says philosopher Slavoj Žižek.
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The question as to whether or not we are hardwired for religion and spirituality is an important one, says pioneering neuroscientist Andrew Newberg. “When we look at how the brain […]
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Internet policy expert Rebecca MacKinnon discusses the social possibilities and challenges presented by new digital technologies.
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Former IOSCO chairperson Jane Diplock explains why gender diversity in corporate leadership is profitable.
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Andrew Cohen says narcissism is a culturally conditioned epidemic. How is it harmful and how can we break out of it?
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We’ve all noticed it – on television and the social web, an increase in politically partisan polemic and cultural isolationism. This “us vs. them” mentality doesn’t reflect the best of […]
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Call it art, experimental philosophy, theater, or what you will – Jonathan Keats plays the fool as a kind of public protest against the ever-present danger of taking ourselves and […]
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Anthony Scaramucci shares his views on who young people should look to as a role model on Wall Street today.
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Jonathan Pryce talks to Big Think’s Jason Gots about Hollywood, King Lear, his distaste for Margaret Thatcher and why British actors always get cast as bad guys in American movies.
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Our anxiety about information overload is unwarranted, says James Gleick, even in the digital age. The internet will cause a readjustment in the way we think, but so did the […]
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