Are geniuses real? The neuroscience and myths of visionaries Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Learn skills from the world’s top minds at Big Think Edge: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Revolutionary ideas and culture-shifting inventions are often credited to specific individuals, but how often do these “geniuses” actually operate in […]
Retrain your brain for long-term thinking Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Learn skills from the world’s top minds at Big Think Edge: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Roman Krznaric, philosopher and author of the book “The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long Term Thinking,” says that there are two […]
Textiles: Humanity’s early tech boom Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Learn skills from the world’s top minds at Big Think Edge: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Virginia Postrel, author of The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World, describes how the pursuit of textiles has led to a vast […]
Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►► https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink Check out Jamie Wheal’s latest book “Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death in a World That’s Lost Its Mind” ►► https://www.recapturetherapture.com/ The speed at which civilization is progressing has become overwhelming for modern humans and has caused what Jamie Wheal […]
Mixing human + animal DNA and the future of gene editing Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Learn skills from the world’s top minds at Big Think Edge: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- As the material that makes all living things what/who we are, DNA is the key to understanding and […]
How to live an intellectual life, with Zena Hitz Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Learn skills from the world’s top minds at Big Think+: https://bigthink.com/plus/ ———————————————————————————- When you picture an intellectual, who do you see? Professor Zena Hitz says that somewhere along the way, the idea of […]
Physics’ greatest mystery: Michio Kaku explains the God Equation Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Learn skills from the world’s top minds at Big Think+: https://bigthink.com/plus/ ———————————————————————————- “It’s no exaggeration to say that the greatest minds of the entire human race have made proposals for this grand final […]
The science of sex, love, attraction, and obsession | Big Think Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Learn skills from the world’s top minds at Big Think+: https://bigthink.com/plus/ ———————————————————————————- How love makes us feel can only be defined on an individual basis, but what it does to the […]
The renegade WW2 pilots who tried to end war as we know it Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Learn skills from the world’s top minds at Big Think Edge: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Much has been written about World War II in the seven and a half decades since […]
The morality of beasts | Frans de Waal | Big Think Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Learn skills from the world’s top minds at Big Think Edge: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Frans de Waal has studied the behavior of primates for five decades. Some of his many important observations […]
