Guest Thinkers — April 28, 2011 Video: Student disengagement Scott McLeod Copy a link to the article entitled Share Video: Student disengagement on Facebook Share Video: Student disengagement on Twitter (X) Share Video: Student disengagement on LinkedIn I love this video. How much of this occurs in your school on a day-to-day basis? What would your kids say?
Thinking The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker Who — or what — really controls your mind?
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.
High Culture 6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.
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. ▸ 7 min — with 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.
Guest Thinkers The Understanding of Science derives from Outside the Classroom As you might have noticed from my posts here on Big Think already but certainly when you have read some of my other publications, I am an advocate for the […]