Eric Kandel: Creativity, Your Brain, and the Aha! Moment Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Dr. Eric Kandel describes the “aha phenomenon” and speculates on ways that humans and groups can think more creatively. ———————————————————————————- ERIC KANDEL: Dr. Eric […]
Edward Frenkel: Let’s Stop Hating Math Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Mathematician Edward Frenkel knows why so many people hate mathematics. It’s simple really: the way math is taught is so draconian and ineffective that students can’t help […]
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Look closer — you’ll see a story about history. Find me elsewhere: Twitter: https://twitter.com/philedwardsinc Instagram: https://instagram.com/philedwardsinc Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philedwardsinc For this piece about the cracks in paintings, I mainly parroted the widely-cited and influential work of Spike Bucklow. Check out these key papers: The description of craquelure patterns: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1506709?seq=1 The description and […]
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All this little monkey was missing was corduroy britches. “Jack was the pet and assistant of double leg amputee signalman James Wide, who worked for the Cape Town–Port Elizabeth Railway service. James “Jumper” Wide had been known for jumping between railcars until an accident where he fell and lost both […]
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Esther Perel on the Difference Between Sexuality and Eroticism Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Esther Perel discusses the very important distinction between sex and eroticism, the latter being exclusive to humans. Perel is recognized as one of the […]
There were other humans before us, and even some at the same time as us. Now, Homo sapien is the only human left. But who were the others? “A number of varieties of Homo are grouped into the broad category of archaic humans in the period that precedes and is […]
