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Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

We surprise some of the world's brightest minds with ideas they're not at all prepared to discuss. W

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While you live, shine. Have no mourning at all. Life exists a short whileAnd time demands its fee. –

The places we live in shape us. I don’t care who you are how indomitable your will…your spirit is in

What is food? It’s nourishment. It’s comfort. It’s culture. It’s art. For millions of people, it’s n

When you think of the industrial revolution what comes to mind? Steam engines probably. Lone genius

Imagine you’re a father or a mother of three kids. Your city is in the middle of a civil war. At any

On an  earlier episode of this show the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk said something that I’ve never

Life is full of horrible things. I dare you to deny it. Things like death, sickness, and alcoholism.

As the Wu-Tang Clan once put it: “Cash moves everything around me... Get the money. Dollar dollar bi

There’s a famous line from a Bob Dylan song that goes “she’s got everything she needs...she’s an art

In Hollywood movies diplomats always get a bad rap. I’m picturing Claude Rains as “Mr. Dryden” in La

This episode is really something different. It’s a live show we did on April 21st in Green Bay Wisco

Je pense donc je suis. (I think, therefore I am.)Huh? Who is this I?How do I know that it is thinkin

Why can’t we all just get along? And conversely, why do we sometimes get along so well, building cat

In New York City, where we all live in little boxes on top of one another, “Ignore thy neighbor” is

Ambition and loyalty. What we want versus what we already have and should be grateful for. When ther

What does your education mean to you? What would you be willing to sacrifice for it? For me and my s

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Adult life, with all its schedules and responsibilities, can turn into a kind of library of locked b

I admit it. I confess. I’ve got a touch of what my guest today calls “progressophobia”. Ever since C

I don’t know about you, but for me, middle school was horrible. I arrived at an all-male school in a