Surprising Science — March 20, 2012

Empowering Women: Feminist Activist Gloria Feldt LIVE on Big Think

Gloria Feldt is the former president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the author of No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power.

Jonathan Fowler and Elizabeth Rodd

In her latest book No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, Gloria Feldt talks about how women need to assert themselves in order to fully reap the benefits of how far they have come socially, politically, and economically. She responds to viewer-submitted questions in this livestream interview, originally recorded on March 16, 2012.

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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

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