Are millennials lazy whiners or victims of circumstance? Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Writer Michael Hobbes says there are too many stereotypes about millennials. What is missing is the realization that millennials are going to be in financial […]
Federal Reserve officials left interest rates unchanged but downgraded their view of the US economy. Officials said recent indicators suggest that growth of economic activity moderated in the first half of the year, and the labor market is “solid” and inflation “remains somewhat elevated.” Bloomberg Television analyzes the latest Fed […]
How to stop politics from controlling your emotions New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Has the constant barrage of political news got you down? Yale University historian Timothy Snyder reminds us that looking at things from a […]
Picture all the gold you could possibly imagine. Now double it. That’s how much wealth the richest man who ever lived controlled. Most people will go their entire lives without ever learning his name. It might be tempting to mention some modern billionaires. People like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or […]
Is all money just a ponzi scheme? New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- “Money, it’s a gas,” wrote Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters for their hit ‘Money’. Author, speaker, and social innovator Vicki Robin would probably agree: she […]
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And the president is part of the problem. This is Part 3 of Vox Atlas: The Amazon, a three-part series about the world’s largest rainforest, why it’s in jeopardy, and the people trying to save it. Watch all three parts right here on YouTube. Part 1: https://youtu.be/SAZAKPUQMw0 Part 2: https://youtu.be/e1_4JseKlO4 […]
Sources and further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesoverpopulationandafrica For most of our history, the human population grew slowly. Until new discoveries brought us more food and made us live longer. In just a hundred years the human population quadrupled. This led to apocalyptic visions of an overcrowded earth. But the population growth rate […]
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And what the US election means for climate change. Watch more 2020 election explainers at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8cMiYb3G5eKjlXtsOo6SDi2ZvcHQ69q All of recorded human history has happened during a period in which the average global temperature didn’t change by more than 1 degree Celsius. But the burning of fossil fuels has triggered a temperature […]
