Professor Larry Lessig presents his plan to end cronyism in Washington at The Nantucket Project, a festival of idea on Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Mark Ruffalo, Co-founder of Water Defense, adresses The Nantucket Project along with Mark Jacobson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and Marco Krapels, co-chairman of Rabobank’s corporate […]

Why should you bother to wake up tomorrow knowing that we’re all going to die billions and billions of years from now when the universe turns to absolute zero, when […]

What is collective intelligence? Experts such as Matt Ridley weigh in on the mating of ideas and what it means for our future human prosperity.

Nature didn’t give us any tools to control our emotions. That is why psychologist Paul Ekman says you need to keep a diary of your emotions, writing what you are […]

In this first dispatch from Beijing for his new blog on Big Think, artist and political activist Ai Weiwei explains the powerful effects of social media on political freedom in […]

Today students graduate from college in the U.S. with a mountain of debt and a skill set deficit that leaves them unprepared for the challenges of succeeding in today’s knowledge […]

Throughout human history people have tried to create utopia, the perfect society. These dreams have not been realized because we have scarcity. However, now we have nanotechnology, and with nanotechnology, […]

Companies need to be social to be successful. This is a key insight in Maddie Grant’s book Humanize: How People-Centric Organizations Succeed in a Social World, which argues that the […]

John Seely Brown argues that foregrounding the Humanities is our only hope of sustaining innovation in the United States.

Lean thinking was a concept that originated in the Japanese car industry in the 1970s but can be applied to the challenges of sustainability and conserving natural resources

One of the inventions that may be realized by advances in nanotechnology is the creation of a Von Neumann probe, which is essentially a virus, a self-replicating probe that can […]

Most businesses understand that social media is important, but not necessarily how to use it in their own best interests.

From an evolutionary standpoint, which traits are most adaptive to a historical moment in which old certainties have vanished and anything is possible? According to Seely Brown, they include bravery, […]

A panel on technology and sheer courage disrupting autism at the 2012 Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas on Nantucket, MA.

In John Maeda’s experience as an artist–turned–President of the Rhode Island School of Design, the ideal leader falls somewhere in between Lao Tzu and Father Knows Best.

Mindfulness therapy is an emerging, non-pharmacological therapy that involves exercising the human brain to improve learning, memory problems, anxiety and problems with depression.