August 21, 2013

We’re Born to Learn, Then We Forget | a G+ Hangout with Ellen Galinsky

Has the age of zero-sum competition come to an end? Can we learn to recognize collaborative learning as our primary task from cradle to grave?

In this G+ hangout for Big Think Mentor, Ellen Galinsky, author of Mind in the Making, joins Big Think editor Jason Gots and Big Think Mentor members Patrick Johnson and Christian Grieco to discuss the “seven essential life skills” — the sum of decades of research into how we humans learn and thrive throughout the lifespan.

Watch the video:

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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.

a group of five matches on a pink background.

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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