Ten ways you can cut food addiction by changing the information going in your body and upgrading your biological software.

According to Bill Nye, if you stop exploring, you’re not going to move forward as a species. Your country’s economy will also fall behind. After all, space exploration stimulates the […]

Rebecca MacKinnon is a founding member of the Global Network Initiative, a multi-stakeholder initiative to advance principles of freedom of expression and privacy in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) […]

The future of film is collaborative storytelling, says Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards.

People in positions of power need to be committed to increasing the representation of women on boards and in other leadership roles, or it won’t happen, says Monique Leroux.

There’s a big difference between being smart and being wise, and also being intelligent, frankly, says futurist Edie Weiner.

Donald Rumsfeld reflects on his over 50 year career in public service with Big Think — the highs and the lows, the challenges and the triumphs. From his call to […]

We don't really want what we think we desire, says philosopher Slavoj Žižek.

The question as to whether or not we are hardwired for religion and spirituality is an important one, says pioneering neuroscientist Andrew Newberg. “When we look at how the brain […]

Internet policy expert Rebecca MacKinnon discusses the social possibilities and challenges presented by new digital technologies.

Former IOSCO chairperson Jane Diplock explains why gender diversity in corporate leadership is profitable.

Andrew Cohen says narcissism is a culturally conditioned epidemic. How is it harmful and how can we break out of it?

We’ve all noticed it – on television and the social web, an increase in politically partisan polemic and cultural isolationism. This “us vs. them” mentality doesn’t reflect the best of […]

Call it art, experimental philosophy, theater, or what you will – Jonathan Keats plays the fool as a kind of public protest against the ever-present danger of taking ourselves and […]

Anthony Scaramucci shares his views on who young people should look to as a role model on Wall Street today.

Jonathan Pryce talks to Big Think’s Jason Gots about Hollywood, King Lear, his distaste for Margaret Thatcher and why British actors always get cast as bad guys in American movies.

Our anxiety about information overload is unwarranted, says James Gleick, even in the digital age. The internet will cause a readjustment in the way we think, but so did the […]

This interview was originally broadcast live on bigthink.com on May 3, 2012. Newberg is a pioneer in the neuroscientific study of religious and spiritual experiences, or neurotheology. Here he discusses […]

Slavoj Zizek answers the question, “Do you think science has replaced philosophy in discovering the bigger questions of life?” Philosophy is not dying, he says — in fact, we need […]