Big Think 08/05/16 : "Enlightenment is a traditionally mystical and slippery concept, but when it is subjected to the rigors of empirical analysis, there is a lot to be learned about our brains and ourselves. Dr. Andrew Newberg, who has put enlightenment through a battery of scientific tests, says there are actually two kinds of enlightenment: lowercase-e enlightenment, which changes our opinions about the world, and Enlightenment, which changes our essence, i.e. how we think of life, death, God, etc.. Capital-e Enlightenment is notable because of how people report the experience anecdotally and how it changes the brain...
Big Think 28/03/16 : "Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek argues that understanding basic physical laws is sufficient to grasp how the mind works, but that may not explain everything about the mind. Frank Wilczek's book is "A Beautiful Question : Finding Nature's Deep Design"...
Big Think : "Emotion is so interesting. If you think about the evolution of emotions, you know, first there was 400 million years ago the brain was – the reptilian brain as we call it. And these are memories that were instinctively programmed by genetics...
Big Think : "The world is full of untapped potential. A lack of leadership leads to a lot of latent energy going to waste. In the internet age, who will step up to be needed figurehead ? Jim Gilliam's book is "The Internet is My Religion"...
Big Think : "Big Think and the Mental Health Channel are proud to launch Big Thinkers on Mental Health, a new series dedicated to open discussion of anxiety, depression and the many other psychological disorders that affect millions worldwide... Dr. Rachel Yehuda is one of the foremost researchers in the country studying neurobiology with regard to PTSD. In this video interview, Dr. Yehuda relays common symptoms and struggles associated with the debilitating disorder. Where does one's brain go when traumatic flashbacks emerge ? How do you fight these uncomfortable situations ?..
Big Think : "All new technology is frightening, says physicist Lawrence Krauss. But there are many more reasons to welcome machine consciousness than to fear it. Right now, says Krauss, robots can't even fold laundry. But when they do learn to think (which he considers very likely), then there's also reason to believe that they'll develop consciences...
Big Think 20/03/15 : "Former Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit explains why new branches of data science must steer from the impulse to measure correlation and instead seek to explore causality. New discoveries in causality built upon big data can then be used to help people break bad habits and steer clear of harmful behaviors...
Big Think 18/02/15 : "Every year, Peter Diamandis ruminates on the kinds of technology ready to leap from "deceptive" to "disruptive." In this video, he explores virtual reality as an innovation ready...
Marc Perton 06/01/15 : " At last year's Consumer Electronics Show, the talk was about the "Internet of Things," in which every device is a smart device and they all communicate with you via the internet and your smartphone. And a few gadgets, such as an internet-connected Crock-Pot, attempted to deliver on that promise...
Nicholas Negroponte : "Education is a human right for sure. And Internet access is such a fundamental part of learning that by extension it is almost certainly a human right and within a very short period of time it will be particularly because of those who don’t have schools, those who have to do their learning on their own...
Big Think : "Journalist Warren Berger discusses how thinking in questions can catalyze innovation and reveal more effective answers. The time to adopt this mindset is early and Berger advocates for teaching this skill in primary schools…
Big Think 05/08/14 : "The Internet of Things will be creating streams of data : PwC's Chris Curran tells Big Think. Chris Curran compares the coming technological shift to the constant streams of information we're used to seeing in our social media news feeds. If you think Big Data provides an explosion of information, it's about to become exponentially bigger…
We’re more connected than ever before, making it increasingly difficult to unplug. What is the last thing you look at before you go to bed ? Is it the television blaring a series ? Or are you catching up on the stories of the day in your Twitter feed ? How often do you go from staring at a screen to shutting your eyes, expecting to get a good night’s sleep ? Rest is essential to optimal brain function…
Big Think 14/04/16 : "Too many people understand meditation as a way to banish worldly thoughts, but your thoughts will never go away, says Jon Kabat-Zinn. You've got to observe them like a scientist...
Big Think 07/09/15 : "In this video interview, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek details the broad influence Albert Einstein had on his career, as well as his influence on society as a whole. And since Wilczek is the author of a new book on natural design, we learn much about Einstein's impact on the study and theory of symmetry...
Big Think : "You may have been on Amazon and you may put things in – I use what’s called a save for later or something in your cart. And you come back the next day and good news, you know, this book is three cents less or that’s two cents more or this is a dollar more. But there aren’t people doing that. This is a machine learning algorithm...
Big Think : "Are your family trips an exercise in pleasure or comfort? Behavior economics guru Dan Ariely notes that there's a vivid difference between the two... and it may mean the difference between a fantastic vacation and one that's just okay. Ariely's new book is titled Irrationally Yours...
Big Think : "Is the time we experience in our day-to-day lives real ? Theoretical physicist Brian Green explores the potential particles of time and why we could, in theory, travel forward in time but not back...
Big Think / Singularity University : "Should you invest in Bitcoin ? Maybe not, says Brad Templeton, but that doesn't mean the digital currency isn't amazing in and of itself. Templeton explains what Bitcoin achieves and how it will lead to further innovation. This video is part of Big Think's collaboration with Singularity University on Exponential Technology...
Legendary biologist Edward O. Wilson explores three realms of ultimate biology from which we should expect major breakthroughs over the next several decades. Each is rooted in synthetic biology, which makes the creation of artificial life possible. Wilson's latest book is titled "The Meaning of Human Existence"...
Big Think | Anders Fogh Rasmussen 09/01/15 : "In September 2005, the Danish newspaper "Jyllands-Posten" published several cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed. Any visual depiction of the prophet is considered blasphemous in most Islamic traditions. The cartoons drew criticism from many Muslim communities and spurred violent protests in some Muslim countries. There were calls for the Danish government to step in and do something, or at the very least apologize.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who was at the time President of Denmark, called the event "Denmark's worst international relations incident since the Second World War." In this Big Think interview, conducted prior to the tragic events at French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, Rasmussen explains why he and his government elected not to cave to outside pressure. As he says, compromising on the freedom of the press would undermine Denmark's free society and democracy...
Biologist Edward O. Wilson, a two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient and the author of the new book The Meaning of Human Existence, discusses extraterrestrial life in today's featured Big Think video...
Bih Think | Jeremy Rifkin : "We are just beginning to glimpse the bare outlines of an emerging new economic system--the collaborative commons : explains economist Jeremy Rifkin, the New York Times bestselling author of The Zero Marginal Cost Society. In our new series on disruption, Rifkin discusses the forces shaping our economy and what we can expect in the years to come. “This is the first new economic paradigm to emerge on the world scene since the advent of capitalism and socialism in the early 19th century. So it's a remarkable historical event…
Steven Mazie 23/07/14 : "Many of us have fallen victim to it : changing our profile picture to those white equals signs atop a red background because someone said that it meant you support marriage equality, sharing the now-infamous #Kony2012 video that no one ever watched in full, or reposting the Huffington Post article only because the title was too witty and relevant not to. From warring perspectives on the conflict in Gaza to the now strangely dated hashtag #bringbackourgirls, the viral social issue of the hour floods Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook…
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