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When you simplify history, you obliterate the truth, says Ethan Hawke.
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Change is coming, but not from the generation that currently holds positions of power.
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These needles in the vast galactic haystack take more effort to find, but they help piece together our origins.
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Can our bodies tell the difference between recorded violence and real life danger?
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Film critic A.O. Scott on how to be more constructive in your criticisms.
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What a group of orphaned elephants can teach us about emotion and learned social skills.
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What is the hive mind? Turns out there are antisocial and prosocial dimensions to it.
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There are several levels of comedy plagiarism, says Paul F. Tompkins.
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What areas of the brain are activated when you feel a cosmic connection with someone?
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What’s key to successfully expanding your team? A leader who can hire smarter, not faster.
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More than ever before, we’re aware of the tragedy and suffering that goes on in the world. But does that mean we can do more about it?
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We have arrived: Big Think’s most popular video of 2019 tells us light exists outside of time.
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Next up on the countdown at #2, the world’s next superpower might just resurrect the Middle Ages.
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Third on the Big Think 2019 countdown reveals this is what the world will be like if we do not act on climate change.
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Taking the fourth spot on Big Think’s 2019 top 10 countdown is the question: Evolutionarily speaking, is being gay still something of an enigma?
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Next on Big Think’s 2019 top 10 countdown, black holes may give us a glimpse of the underlying nature of reality.
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Next up on the top 10 countdown, Big Think’s sixth most popular video illustrates the mental fireworks of a psychedelic experience.
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Continuing the countdown, Big Think’s seventh most popular video of 2019 explains why universal basic income will hurt the 99%, and make the 1% even richer.
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Big Think’s eighth most popular video of the year reveals what the real future of war could look like.
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The countdown continues! In this video, comedian Pete Holmes likens depression to quicksand and provides a method to help you cope and with it.
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The countdown is on for our top 10 videos of the year! Want to be smarter than you were yesterday? This video will teach you to have better conversations using 3 key design principles.
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You cannot live on steak and avocados alone, says Jillian Michaels, in this divisive video.
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Our most talked-about video of 2019 features a lesson in nonsensical thinking from none other than Michio Kaku.
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Hierarchies of taste exist in our society, but their roots often reflect more than just the quality of work.
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Parenting is often a compromise between you and your spouse. However, it’s that very melding of styles that makes you both greater than the sum of your individual parts.
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Expert opinions matter, especially when their knowledge is continuously refined by critical analysis.
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Laughing is so contagious that we often forget how subjective humor is.
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Is it acceptable to write a story from the perspective of someone who is completely unlike you?
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“You get to this age, you realize that there are people who will not like what you do no matter what you do,” says Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie.
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Perhaps sooner than we think, we’ll need to examine the moral standing of intelligent machines.
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