Big Think

Big Think

Big Think is an online multimedia platform that was established in 2007 by Victoria Brown and Peter Hopkins. The site features a variety of content, including interviews, presentations, and discussions with specialists from diverse areas of expertise. Victoria Brown serves as the CEO, while Peter Hopkins holds the position of president. In November 2018, Big Think started creating videos that are sponsored by The Charles Koch Foundation.

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  • 2 days ago | bigthink.com | Jonny Thomson

    A place to pause and reflect on life’s bigger questions, with Big Think’s Jonny Thomson. “Put yourself […] in the mind of a 3-, 4-, or 5-year-old,” Oliver Burkeman instructs me. “You just get up every day, and you have no say. I mean, of course, you get some say, but you know what I mean? Where you live, where you’re going — you know that the plans are just completely outside of your control.

  • 3 days ago | bigthink.com | Ethan Siegel

    Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. If you had asked any informed astronomer about the fate of our galaxy here in the 21st century, you would have gotten a near-universal story from practically all of them: in about four billion years, the Milky Way would merge with the only galaxy larger than itself in the entire Local Group, Andromeda.

  • 4 days ago | bigthink.com | Tim Brinkhof

    Learn from the world’s biggest business thinkers. In an age where most careers converge towards specialization, genuine Renaissance-style polymaths have become increasingly difficult to come by — but Andrew Mayne comfortably fits the bill. Bestselling author, science educator, original OpenAI prompt engineer, inventor, founder, coder, and protective-shark-suit designer all appear on his packed resume. The sky, it seems, is Mayne’s limit.

  • 4 days ago | bigthink.com | Meghan Sullivan

    Meghan Sullivan: In today's society, we oftentimes separate love from moral philosophy in pretty profound ways. We think about love as primarily a psychological phenomenon, something that we don't have a great deal of control over. When we think about morality, we think about looking for rules and principles that do not have any exceptions, that are unemotional. How could a certain emotion and attitude be so central to our lives but also be seemingly completely independent of ethics?

  • 4 days ago | bigthink.com | Ethan Siegel

    Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. Just like Germany in 1933, the US government is actively destroying science today. These ten historical quotes remind us of science’s unique, irreplaceable societal value. 1.) “Scientists do not discover in order to know, but rather, they know in order to discover.” -Alfred Whitehead2.) “Believe those who seek the truth.

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