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The President of Emirates Airline discusses the skills necessary to be an effective leader in today’s economic environment.
Venture capitalist and Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake talks to Big Think about why AI won’t make the internet better, her influences beyond tech, and more.
Each time you fold a piece of paper, you double the paper's thickness. It doesn't take all that long to even reach the Moon.
"The name's Bond. Jane Bond."
The separation of church and state is being dismantled one bill at a time.
The Brooklyn Book Festival took place last weekend, and I still can’t stop thinking about Mary Higgins Clark. She’s a GILF, a grandmother I’d like to “Friend,” and leave inside […]
What is the strongest motivation for space exploration today? According to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, it's the promise of economic return.
As his ear continues to be bent by assorted British Government officials, spooks and former Ministers determined that he introduce further restrictions over disclosure of information in ‘sensitive’ court cases […]
In this excerpt from his lecture for The Floating University, Dr. Kaku explains that time machines do not violate Einstein's laws of physics, and that future humans would be wise to build one and slip through a wormhole before the cooling universe extinguishes all known life.
The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, is in trouble. Rumours of a plot to unseat him have been swirling around Westminster this week, with Deputy Speaker, Nigel […]
Gen. Wesley Clark’s Four-Star Advice on Life, War, Foreign Affairs and America’s Energy Independence
Who better to comment on President Obama’s recent decision to declare an end to the United States’ prolonged conflict in Iraq than General Wesley Clark? In his Big Think interview, […]
Big Think interviewed an array of luminaries in a variety of fields this week, including several world leaders and giants in the arts. Bolivian President Evo Morales, in New York […]
Growing up, I spent many a rainy or wintry Saturday afternoon watching classic old horror films such as Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man or Dracula Vs. Frankenstein. It always seemed […]
In this excerpt from "One Hand Clapping," Nikolay Kukushkin makes the case that neurons reveal how memory, meaning, and even consciousness emerge from the same biological roots in humans, sea slugs, and beyond.
Quantum mechanics was first discovered on small, microscopic scales. 2025's Nobel Prize brings the quantum and large-scale worlds together.
Dust is ubiquitous in the modern Universe, appearing in nearly all galaxies. But our cosmos was born dust-free. So where does it originate?
The latest "Superman" film sets Metropolis in the First State.
Kathryn Harkup, chemist and author of V Is for Venom, joins Big Think to discuss why Christie isn’t just a brilliant writer but a unique science communicator.
In this preview from "The Saucerian," author Gabriel Mckee explains how the combination of fantastical stories and obscure bureaucracy launched the “space age of the imagination.”
As we shape our future we should ask: Which interpretations of classic sci-fi fables hold sway with today’s powerful tech leaders?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Bestselling author Seth Godin urges us to rethink our definition of longevity — and to step back and measure what matters.
Timothy Caulfield, a leading science communicator, discusses the challenges of combatting misinformation in an age of information overload.
If humanity lives in an otherwise barren Universe, we'll have to forge philosophy that fills the void.
AI has become a black box in more ways than one.
With the right prompts, large language models can produce quality writing — and make us question the limits of human creativity.
In a major shift, psychologists now view an out-of-control compulsion to work as an addiction with its own set of risk factors and consequences.
From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity's journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.
In "Moral Ambition," Dutch historian Rutger Bregman argues that all would benefit from a collective redefinition of success.
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”