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“I don’t wanna live in a world where everyone’s a vegetarian.”
The host of the Founders podcast joins Big Think for a chat about success, obsession, business genius, human nature, and more.
You no longer need an army of followers to stand out as a writer — “one great piece is all it takes,” says Perell.
Life may have arisen far earlier — and more rapidly — than previously thought.
It started with a 22-year-old woman, named in papers only as Mrs McK.
Celebrating five years since Grain Brain was published, David Perlmutter doubles down on his warnings.
A stunning new image of ALMA’s protoplanetary disk sheds light on planetary formation. “TW Hydrae is quite special. It is the nearest known protoplanetary disc to Earth and it may […]
Former NBA Commissioner David Stern discusses how diversity forms the foundation of the league's recent growth and success. At one point, Stern was told the NBA was "too black to thrive." Now, it's as popular as ever.
“riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay,” begins James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, opening a torrent of words that has drowned many readers in confusion […]
When David Bowie played Andy Warhol in the 1996 film Basquiat, he wore Warhol’s actual wig and glasses. Bowie met Warhol in his travels through the art world and even […]
So David Brooks wants to arouse in us some SELECTIVE NOSTALGIA for neoconservatism. That’s not surprising, because he once was a “neocon”—or a “national greatness” conservative. Now the brand “neocon” […]
“A painter, a composer, and a poet went on a road trip,” begins one print advertisement for the MoMA’s new exhibition Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925. Although it sounds like the start […]
Our interview with neuroscientist David Eagleman aired live on our site on Monday, April 30th, 2012. In this recap, he discusses his latest book, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the […]
“If you want to replenish your visual thinking, you have to go back to nature,” David Hockney says in Bruno Wollheim’s film David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, “because there’s the […]
Oh how I wish David Foster Wallace had been my English professor. The University of Texas has recently posted the syllabus from the English 102 class he taught at Pomona […]
Orr’s piece in the New York Times Book Reviewon an O magazine photo shoot with young poets is a perfect example of how to write about something you know a […]
David Heinemeier Hansson was bored until the day he met Ruby, and then his life changed forever. No, this isn’t a love story—not a conventional one anyway—it’s a story of […]
The Good Soldiers is nearly unbearable. Relentlessly so. Commendably so. Whether you’re a combat veteran, a soldier’s mom, an Iraqi, the 43rd U.S. president, an ordinary American, or some pundit […]
Over the next few months, Big Think is rolling out a series of interviews with leading economics experts to analyze the financial crisis and answer some pressing questions: Who’s to […]
Imagine Heraclitus spending an afternoon down by the river...
Philosophers rarely change their minds. These thinkers did — often at social and professional cost.
Science helps us imagine the vastness of space and time — and our small but meaningful place within it.
These expert-recommended books try to answer the questions of consciousness, from its fundamental nature to its role in human experience and the natural world.
A meditation on quantum physics, creative endurance, and the unseen forces that shape what lasts.
From bondage to freedom: Baruch Spinoza’s guide to the rational life.
The first in a series of short stories by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author that inspired the cult hit "Pantheon."
Jono Hey — whose sketches have been shared by the likes of Bill Gates and Steven Bartlett — draws some of his most valued leadership insights.
By weaponizing the global economy, the U.S. initiated a new era of economic warfare and transformed how major powers compete.
If humanity lives in an otherwise barren Universe, we'll have to forge philosophy that fills the void.
Earth is actively broadcasting and actively searching for intelligent civilizations. But could our technology even detect ourselves?