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Big Think exists to make you smarter, faster. Through conversations with the world’s brightest thinkers, we bring you the ideas shaping the future of science, philosophy, culture, and the human mind. Our library of thousands of videos distills complex insight into clear, actionable wisdom for how to think, work, and live in a changing world.
Meet legendary teachers like philosopher Daniel Dennett, physicist Brian Cox, classicist Mary Beard, psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, political scientist Ian Bremmer, anthropologist Helen Fisher, and hundreds more — all sharing the ideas that define our time and the questions that will shape our future.
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The story of a 1524 map of the Aztec capital — Frank Jacobs / 🎨 Credit: Library of Congress
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How do you actually prepare for a life-changing event? You can gather all the data. Interview everyone who's been through it. Read every book. And still have no idea what you're walking into. Yale philosopher L.A. Paul explains why (and what to do instead) in this new full interview from The Well, our partnership with the John Templeton Foundation: https://youtu.be/VOAqqjbDKFs
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"Doing less can actually make you feel more tired" — Anne-Laure Le Cunff. / 🎨 Sarah Soryal
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Today on Big Think: Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi guides us through the quantum realm, the cosmological realm, and two theories of the multiverse, wading into physics' most profound questions. His Full Interview is out now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyhB7...
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Do you find yourself setting goals, only to end up abandoning them two weeks in? Author Chris Bailey can relate, and became obsessed with the science of goal setting and productivity to try to break this pattern. He's meditated for 35 hours in a single week, watched 300 TED Talks back-to-back, and worked 90-hour weeks — all to stress-test the science of human productivity and focus.
In today's full interview, Bailey shares what he learned, introducing his own framework for connecting daily actions to the values that actually drive you, and explains why most goals fail not from lack of willpower, but from a misalignment with your core values.
Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOVHF...
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We used to think human migration was a simple branching tree. Ancient DNA proved it's something far stranger. Harvard Geneticist David Reich explains in this new release from The Well, a partnership between Big Think and the John Templeton Foundation: https://youtu.be/WBxJCLLd8U4
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 687
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Traditional deep reading is declining.
Jonny Thomson explores the 3 types of reading (and the 2 you'll pick).
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AI is not the root problem.
According to Eric Markowitz AI is a mirror reflecting a system that already treats human value as expendable.
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2 weeks ago | [YT] | 5,178
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We've been "rawdogging" for centuries.
Laura Kennedy explains the neuroscience behind the timeless practice of doing nothing.
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A 2% genetic inheritance, a Siberian pinky bone, and vanished populations across continents all point to the same lesson: the past is stranger than the linear version we were taught. Geneticist David Reich explains in this video on The Well, a collaboration between Big Think and the John Templeton Foundation: https://youtu.be/TqM-OnZuVd4
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