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Sam Harris discusses the virtues of psychedelics such as LSD and MDMA. While he does not condone the use of these drugs without caveat, he does acknowledge their profound consciousness-altering properties.
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Venture for America is a non-profit fellowship program that grooms the next generation of American entrepreneurs by placing them in startup apprenticeships.
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Bill McDermott argues that the best business leaders put their family first and should demonstrate this as a best-practice for their employees. McDermott is the CEO of SAP, a multinational corporation that makes enterprise software to manage customer relations and business operations.
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Biographer Walter Isaacson discusses his new book The Innovators and why Steve Jobs was a prickly teambuilder.
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Iron Chef Jose Garces shares his culinary approach to parenting. It turns out even a celebrity chef sometimes falters by letting his kids eat junk food.
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Kip Tindell, CEO of the Container Store, explains that his employees are the company’s most valuable asset and that it’s important to pay them what their worth to foster a positive workplace culture.
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TechShop CEO and co-founder Mark Hatch discusses how TechShop can democratize the production of prototypes and products.
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Nicholas Kristof describes research on what provokes charitable giving.
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To succeed, your company needs to take advantage of the three biggest digital trends shaping the future: mobile, personalization, and data.
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Empowerment is not a zero-sum venture, says Landesa CEO Tim Hanstad. Educating the world about this fact will open the door for reform.
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In this 4-part Big Think Mentor workshop Stewart D. Friedman teaches us the skills we need to harmoniously integrate work and life. In this lesson Friedman introduces us to the […]
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Dr. Madhav Chavan describes how technological innovations are inherently non-linear, and therefore don’t easily transpose to the linear world of education.
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Michio Kaku describes how our prefrontal cortex disengages as we dream, thus suppressing the fact-checking component of our consciousness.
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Investigative journalist Eric Schlosser describes the terrifyingly close calls we’ve had with nuclear weapons, and the odds that a disaster would result in global catastrophe.
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Theoretical physicist Alan Lightman suggests that our universe is one of many possible variations, leaving physicists at a cosmological dead end. Lightman’s latest book is The Accidental Universe: The World […]
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Ólafur Ragnar GrÃmsson, the fifth President of Iceland, explains the perilous environmental situation in the Arctic in light of climate change.
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Sheryl WuDunn explains the complex worlds of charitable giving, volunteering, and altruism. WuDunn is the co-author of “A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunities.”
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Esther Perel discusses the very important distinction between sex and eroticism, the latter being exclusive to humans. Perel is recognized as one of the world’s most original and insightful voices […]
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Diamond Dallas Page explains how he hesitantly turned to yoga to overcome his wrestling injuries. Page went on to found DDP Yoga, a program that borrows heavily from yogic traditions while featuring his own innovations.
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In this 5-part Big Think Mentor workshop Mihnea Moldoveanu teaches us how to systematically analyze the epistemic structure of networks by using a diagramming tool called the epinet. In this […]
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Sam Harris says that stress-reductive benefits of meditation are rather trivial compared to the insights one can discover about the nature of the self.
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The stress-reductive benefits of meditation are trivial compared to the insights one can discover about the nature of the self.
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Sometimes to be able to make a good decision about digital marketing, it helps to see where other companies err.
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How can companies cope with digital disruption?
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Brad Templeton discusses the vast computational power that a quantum computer could have, provided that someone were to build one.
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Hal Luftig is optimistic that theater will not die as an artform, even in the face of our on-demand, digital consumption.
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Paul Taylor, Executive VP of Special Projects at the Pew Research Center, discusses the phenomenon of boomerangers: millennials who come back home to live with their parents after college.
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Jeffrey Kluger describes some of the key traits of narcissistic personality disorder, pointing out that some of our greatest leaders have narcissistic tendencies.
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Shmuley Boteach argues that men have affairs because their low self-esteem requires constant affirmation. Boteach, an American Orthodox rabbi, is author of “Kosher Lust: Love is Not the Answer.”
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Former US House Representative Barney Frank argues that the ignorance underlying resistance to same-sex marriage and marijuana legalization is similar. In both cases, he says, reality will overcome prejudice and […]
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