Summaries of Big Think Videos 📚

Using Honor to End Honor Killings

What Is the Role of Fear in Surgical Training?

What Is the Science Behind Love and Attraction?

How to reboot your life with the Japanese philosophy of Ikigai | Rob Bell | Big Think

Corporate culture wasn’t built for women. Here’s how to fix that. | Tina Brown | Big Think

What NASA can teach us about education reform | Matt Candler | Big Think

What Is Eusociality and Why Is It Important for Humans?

American Intelligence

Fail Like You Mean It | Big Think

Big Think Interview with Arne Glimcher | Big Think

Why Is Whistleblowing Considered a Lonely Act of Courage?

Alton Brown - Think Again Podcast - Easy-Bake Oven/Hard Knock Life

Men Are Lines, Women Are Circles | Dr. Beverly Whipple | Big Think

What Does Bill Sheft Say About His Comedy Journey?

How ancient philosophers would shape AI | Brendan McCord

What Does a Junkie Witness Reveal About a Murder?

The Path to Discovering Your Talents and Passions, with Sir Ken Robinson | Big Think Mentor

Dan Barber: Translating Theory into a Working Farm

Populist psychology: How class division empowers autocratic leaders | Michele Gelfand | Big Think

What Do You Believe? | Big Think

How to Navigate Science and Religion When Questioning Beliefs

How to build an A.I. brain that can conceive of itself | Joscha Bach | Big Think

Shaving Your "Bikini Region" While Driving, and Other Florida Stories | Humorist Dave Berry

The science behind ‘us vs. them’ | Dan Shapiro, Robert Sapolsky & more | Big Think

How to Enhance Your Lateral Thinking Skills

How Does Trauma Affect Your Brain and Predictions?

Curtis Sliwa: Police Should Be Police—Not Social Workers

How to Advance Your Career in a Competitive Job Market

Hearing Voices and Paranoid Delusions: Inside a Schizophrenic Brain | Big Think

What Are Cerin Genes and How Do They Affect Aging?

What Are the Design Challenges at The New York Times?

Short-term thinking is politics’ most epic failure | Jill Lepore | Big Think

COVID-19: What's happening in US prisons? | Shaka Senghor | Big Think Edge

Global Food Trends | Big Think

Michio Kaku: Consciousness Can be Quantified | Big Think

What Causes Earthquakes and Are They Increasing?

How to Overcome Negative Self-Talk and Find Peace

How Can Business Leaders Address Public Policy Issues?

What What Is the Complex Leadership in Shakespeare's Henry V?

How Prohibition Was Similar to Today's Health Care Debate

How to Achieve Financial Independence and Happiness

A Big Think Interview with Scott Schuman | Big Think

Dambisa Moyo on a More Optimistic Outlook for Africa | Big Think

What Are the Biggest Challenges Facing American Medicine?

What Challenges Do Young Writers Face in Publishing?

How to spot unhealthy ideas that stop true happiness | Johann Hari | Big Think

How Can Parents Help Build Confidence in Girls?

Living on Mars: A 4-step guide for humans | Michio Kaku | Big Think

How to see clearly through deceptive emotions | Kristen Lindquist

How correcting for cognitive biases makes life more fair | Michael Li | Big Think

What Is Slow Love and How Does It Improve Relationships?

The Science of Learning: How to Turn Information into Intelligence | Barbara Oakley | Big Think

What Mistakes Do People Make When Volunteering at Work?

How Does Music Influence Neuroscience Communication?

Why Is Political Correctness Important for Free Speech?

The next pandemic is inevitable. Are we prepared? | Larry Brilliant | Big Think

Saving Lives by Stripping the Power of Doctors | Big Think

Finding a Career by Way of a Panic Attack | Steven C. Hayes | Big Think

Busting the myth of ‘neutral’ AI | Ramesh Srinivasan | Big Think

Bring On the Short Skirts Valerie Steele | Big Think

Think Again Podcast – Mixtape – The Writers' Room

Big Think Interview With Lisa Randall | Big Think

What Insights Does Tim O'Brien Offer on Writing and War?

Michael York on The Actor's Duty

What Are Common Misconceptions About Drugs in Pop Culture?

Are millennials lazy whiners or victims of circumstance? | Michael Hobbes | Big Think

How to Achieve Accomplishment Without Burnout

Have you accidentally offended someone? Here’s advice for you and them.| Allison Stanger | Big Think

How Can Small Businesses Benefit from Technological Advances?

The Universal Balance of Gravity and Dark Energy Predicts Accelerated Expansion | Big Think

Valerie Steele on Fashion Greats | Big Think

What Drives Us to Undertake Expensive Projects?

Charter Schools and the Future of Public Education | Big Think

Three Reasons to Keep Physical Books

What Would Extraterrestrial Life on Other Planets Look Like?

Why are we really afraid of robots? | Ken MacLeod | Big Think

The Crackdown on China's Corrupt Gifting Economy, with Junheng Li | Big Think

Big Think Interview With Laurie Santos

Why Does America Lack a Unique Culinary Identity?

How machine intelligence is remaking the American economy | Big Think

What Skills Will Help You Thrive in an Automated Future?

What Are Ethical Cults and Why Are They Important?

Gautam Mukunda: Abraham Lincoln, Avatar of History

The intelligence explosion: Nick Bostrom on the future of AI

How Does Being Gay Affect Parenting Experiences?

How to grow deeply happy | Jonny Thomson

Are Humans Hardwired for Monogamy or Adultery?

Physics: Are we forever trapped in the arrow of time? | Sabine Hossenfelder

One generation’s solutions, this generation’s disease | Derek Thompson: Full Interview

Why You Should Read Philosophy: Truth, Knowledge, and Meaning | Philip Kitcher | Big Think

How Does Curiosity Drive Human Survival and Innovation?

Why Choose Suffering for a Meaningful Life?

The Genetic Basis of Risk-Seeking

The $200 Fast Food Burger

How Can Entrepreneurial Thinking Solve Social Issues?

What Challenges Does The Onion Face in the Newspaper Industry?

Which mental 'deficits' are really hidden strengths? | Heather Heying | Big Think

Can Technology Give Us X-Ray Vision and Telepathy?

Will New York Become One Giant Suburb? | Sharon Zukin | Big Think

Big Think Interview With Terry Teachout | Big Think

Superhumans: The remarkable brain waves of high-level meditators | Daniel Goleman | Big Think

How Ross Bleckner Addresses AIDS In His Art | Big Think

How Do Women’s Perspectives Shape Moral Development?

Make Your Friend's Day a Little Better with the 'Plus One' Technique | Big Think.

Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell (Full Presentation) | Big Think

Richard Dawkins: Letting Science Inform Morality

The Risk Behind Netflix's Original Programming Leap | Big Think

Why You Might Be Scared of X

What Is the Role of Peer Review in Knowledge Today?