Guest Thinkers — October 16, 2009

The G-Spot Guru

Dr. Beverly Whipple is widely recognized as the scientist who popularized the G-Spot. She came by Big Think today to speak for a special series we’ll be launching in November. Whipple talked about everything from female masturbation to ejaculation, and answered questions about the anatomy of an orgasm. Is is true that women have the ability to climax from mental imagery alone? Stay tuned for Whipple’s interview at the beginning of November.

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Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

a collage of photos of a man with a hat and a book.

High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

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The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

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Technology & Innovation

Building Global Economies: From the Schoolhouse to the Workplace

Schools need to be globally competitive. The best graduates from New York City’s schools are not competing for jobs with the best graduates of Boston’s schools; but with the best graduates in the world. If we look at most of the world’s problems (poverty, disease, AIDS, hunger) the root cause is the lack of education. Nations need to improve their educational systems in order to improve their economies.