Expert Michael Spitzer explains how culture can “tune” your musical taste. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Music’s power over your brain, explained ► https://youtu.be/wAafVviGxhk Do humans have something like an instinct for music? The musicologist Michael Spitzer thinks so. As he points out, every person […]
We’ve operated on a 4-phase model for sex therapy since the ‘60s. “Virtually everything” was wrong with that, according to Dr. Emily Nagoski. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Has the sexual revolution backfired? ► https://youtu.be/9osWeVE2Tg8 How do you define sexual desire? It’s often thought of […]
You might suppress your emotions when you walk through the door at work. But your colleagues can still feel them. Author Cassandra Worthy explains how to transform negative thoughts into positive ones. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Don’t chase happiness. Become antifragile ► https://youtu.be/e-or_D-qNqM Cassandra […]
We may build incredible AI. But can we contain our cruelty? Oxford professor Nick Bostrom explains. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Is AI a species-level threat to humanity? With Elon Musk, Michio Kaku, Steven Pinker & more ► https://youtu.be/91TRVubKcEM Nick Bostrom, a professor at the […]
Here’s how to end an angry conflict in 8 minutes, with @IrshadManjiTV. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Harvard negotiator explains how to argue ►https://youtu.be/IDj1OBG5Tpw Educator Irshad Manji emphasizes that diversity is a fact of life, and it should be harnessed to unite society rather than […]
Why do the worst people rise to power? University College London professor Brian Klaas responds. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Why psychopaths rise to power ► https://youtu.be/PpyIZ4DGIK8 George Washington famously didn’t want to become the president of the United States, but he accepted the job […]
This interview is an episode from @The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the @JohnTempletonFoundation. Subscribe to The Well on YouTube ► https://bit.ly/thewell-youtube Watch Agustín Fuentes’s next interview ► https://youtu.be/u8sxrstg6CA The traditional measure of evolutionary success is a population’s ability to continue, adapt and grow. […]
Former Yale professor Morgan Levine explains how to calculate your ‘bio age’ to live longer. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Michio Kaku: How to reverse aging ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV3XjqW_xgU How old are you? Odds are your answer is a number of years — a metric known […]
Brian Klaas argues that the key to police reform is changing who wants to be a cop. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Busting police brutality myth ► https://youtu.be/h4mw4v4vAH4 Watch the full New Zealand police recruitment ad ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9psILoYmCc Could revamping police recruitment strategies pave the […]
Science can’t stop aging, but it may be able to slow our epigenetic clocks. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Michio Kaku: How to reverse aging ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV3XjqW_xgU What if we could slow down the hands of our biological clocks? This question underpins much of the […]
