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Live with Big Think: Inside “The Opt-Out Nation”
Watch our first-ever members-only event — a livestreamed conversation about our summer special issue, The Opt-Out Nation.
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Your chronological age and your biological age aren’t the same thing. This ex-Yale professor explains how to tell the difference.
42mins
Sabine Hossenfelder talks about Albert Einstein, dead grandmothers, the physics of aging, and more in this full interview with Big Think.
7mins
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Nurse defines the 5 core principles of life.
1hr 25mins
Richard Reeves explains the big problems facing men today — and why no one is talking about them.
4mins
Asking the wrong questions can hold you back. Natalie Nixon explains how to ask divergent questions to become a great thinker.
9mins
Sabine Hossenfelder discusses the physics of… dead grandmothers?
8mins
Educator Irshad Manji emphasizes that diversity is a fact of life, and it should be harnessed to unite society rather than divide it. Recognizing that humans tend to react defensively […]
7mins
Why the best negotiators are nice, not tough.
8mins
A University of Oxford professor explains how conscious machines are possible.
5mins
You might suppress your emotions when you walk through the door at work. But your colleagues can still feel them.
5mins
“All the plausible paths to a really great future, involve the development of machine superintelligence at some point.”
9mins
Kids are more anxious and depressed than ever. Is identity politics to blame?
6mins
How to make money in business, with $100-million Salesforce pioneer Aaron Ross.
9mins
Your sexual education was probably inadequate. Here’s the information you always needed.
1hr 19mins
Steven Pinker explains how to cultivate greater rationality in today's complex world.
7mins
Sexual attitudes are more man-like than ever. Here’s what that means for women.
5mins
Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty reveals the secret to “good power.”
1hr 34mins
Master creative thinking in 90 minutes, with expert Tiago Forte.
8mins
Your brain on sex, love, and rejection with biological anthropologist Helen Fisher.
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Economist Tyler Cowen explains why intelligence is overrated. Here’s what to look for instead.