Big Think

In How to Find Your Element, his 7-session workshop for Big Think Mentor (http://goo.gl/06gYu), creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson tackles the epidemic of dissatisfaction with work and life. In this introduction, he outlin...

http://goo.gl/kVXvR Astrophysicist and science popularizer Neil deGrasse Tyson is caught on camera waxing apocalyptic. The universe is trying to kill us, and so is Mother Earth. But there is still hope. Outsmart the Univer...

In his Big Think Mentor (http://goo.gl/kVXvR) workshop on Spontaneous Happiness, Dr. Andrew Weil teaches a program designed to protect and enhance emotional well-being through a holistic approach to retraining body, mind, ...

Before Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he first had to win the so-called "Carville primary" in 1991. The reward for winning this behind-the-scenes contest was the services of the hottest political consultant at...

Anxiety and depression are widespread in the first world, but virtually unknown in agrarian societies. Why are people in developed nations increasingly unhappy? In this introduction to his Big Think Mentor (http://goo.gl/k...

How good are you at your job? How successful are you in your personal life? To answer those questions, being human, you look at others to evaluate yourself. It is a natural and obvious choice to compare yourself to your pe...

"Good prose is like a windowpane," wrote George Orwell when he was evaluating his own body of work in 1946. When he had lacked a strong motive, Orwell observed, he produced "lifeless books and was betrayed into purple pass...

In our first ever Big Think Mentor Hangout on Air, Maria Konnikova joins Big Think Editor Jason Gots and Big Think Mentor community member Sid Burgess to discuss thinking strategies learned from the Master Sleuth, Sherlock...

http://goo.gl/P2Yk1 Who gets to define success?

Harvard Business School's Robert Steven Kaplan argues in his new book, What You're Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential, that success is not abou...

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Who gets to define success?

Harvard Business School's Robert Steven Kaplan argues in his new book, What You're Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential, that success is not abo...

http://goo.gl/P2Yk1 Who gets to define success?

Harvard Business School's Robert Steven Kaplan argues in his new book, What You're Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential, that success is not abou...

http://goo.gl/P2Yk1 Who gets to define success?

Harvard Business School's Robert Steven Kaplan argues in his new book, What You're Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential, that success is not abou...

Economists were seduced by physics because it made their claims seem more scientific. Their belief was in the concept of equilibrium, in which it would be impossible to profit from trading around a circle of goods or a cir...

In this clip Robert Greene introduces his 3-part Big Think Mentor (http://goo.gl/06gYu) workshop on Achieving Mastery.

Sign up for a free 14-day trial of Big Think Mentor. It's $2.99 / month or $19.99 / year (USD). We are...

Fourth Graders seem to be able to do so much more than we give them credit for or even imagine they can.

Transcript-- The World Peace Game is a 4 foot by 4 foot by 4 foot Plexiglas towering structure. It's basically a geo...

In this clip Neil deGrasse Tyson primes your neurons for his 3-part Big Think Mentor (http://goo.gl/06gYu) workshop on Inventing Your Future. Tyson, a theoretical physicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium, uses his ...

A long tradition of thinking tells us that due to man's animal nature we need to have order imposed from above, in the form of religion. Without religion, we could not live together, and that is why all human societies bel...

In the world of Henry-Alex Rubin's new feature film, Disconnect (http://youtu.be/aqCcQOlDM4o), the hunters have a distinct advantage over the hunted and their protectors. The bullies and thugs have technology on their side...

Life in the colon is probably pretty mundane, says science writer Mary Roach.

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A day in the life of the bacteria in your gut. They are on a different schedule from you because you're eating and it's taking a...

We spend the first year teaching children to walk and talk and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.

Transcript-- I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested ...

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To meet a growing demand among our audience to see the world-class ideas on Big Think transformed into actionable tools to improve their lives, we created Big Think Mentor , which laun...

With 2 brand-new workshops (60+ minutes of highly-produced learning content) added monthly (on the 1st and the 15th), Big Think Mentor connects world-class mentors like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Maria Konnikova, and Tim Ferris...

You have been predicted — by companies, governments, law enforcement, hospitals, and universities. Their computers say, "I knew you were going to do that!" These institutions are seizing upon the power to predict whether y...

We are conscious of both more and less than affects our nervous system says philosopher Alva Noë.

Transcript -- Consider this. We are conscious of both more and less than affects our nervous system. Let me give you an exa...

In Space Chronicles, Neil deGrasse Tyson describes how the Soviet Union was a catalyst for the U.S. space program, and China might be considered a similar catalyst today (http://goo.gl/fzGtH).

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When the presid...

From Stylizing the Environmental Movement: I Am Eco-Warrior http://bigthink.com/big-thi...

People always think of environmentalists "being granola or hippy-ish or ev...

"Drunk Tank Pink" is a shade of pink paint that psychologists used to use to paint the inside of jail cells. The prisoners that were put in there -- often the most dangerous and the most aggressive prisoners - showed much ...

The tax on corporate profits is a terrible tax. Economists to this day don't know who pays it. And that means that we really don't know who's bearing the burden.

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The United States has one of the most complex ...

Kenneth Cukier describes datafication, the fact that daily interactions of living things can be rendered into a data format and put to social use.

Transcript -- Datafication refers to the fact that we're looking at more a...

The idea that a painting is not complete until the viewer responds to it was conceived of by Alois Riegl. He determined that as art evolved, you see there's a conscious attempt on the part of the painter to paint people wh...

Penn Jillette says that despite Donald Trump's apparent craziness, the real estate mogul's move into entertainment is a good role for him in our culture.

Transcript - Donald Trump is not batshit crazy. Donald Trump also d...

More than ten years after the publication of his groundbreaking work of urban theory, "The Rise of the Creative Class," Richard Florida is sticking to his assertion that the rising creative class is an engine of economic a...

Dr. Eric Kandel describes the "aha phenomenon" and speculates on ways that humans and groups can think more creatively.

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Leonardo, for one, spent a fair amount of time dissecting human cadavers because he want...