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Slavoj Žižek | Why Be Happy When You Could Be Interesting? | Big Think

How to use drugs — safely — from the guy who tried them all | Dominic Milton Trott

Don’t chase happiness. Become antifragile | Tal Ben-Shahar | Big Think

Male inequality, explained by an expert | Richard Reeves

The “heroic dose” of psychedelics, according to Johns Hopkins | Dr. Matthew Johnson

Train for any argument with Harvard’s former debate coach | Bo Seo

What to do if your inner voice is cruel | Ethan Kross

Jonathan Franzen on Overrated Books

The real risks of psychedelics, explained by an expert | Dr. Matthew Johnson

Harvard professor debunks the biggest exercise myths | Daniel Lieberman

How to enter ‘flow state’ on command | Steven Kotler for Big Think

Good sex explained in 9 minutes | Dr. Emily Nagoski

Harvard negotiator explains how to argue | Dan Shapiro

3 Ways to Express Your Thoughts So That Everyone Will Understand You | Alan Alda | Big Think

The friendship recession | Richard Reeves

Our primordial drive for sex and love | Helen Fisher

Slavoj Žižek: Political Correctness is a More Dangerous Form of Totalitarianism | Big Think

Why divergent thinkers beat geniuses in the real world | David Epstein

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

Forensic accountant explains why fraud thrives on Wall Street

What drives people?

Slavoj Žižek: Don't Act. Just Think. | Big Think

Psychedelics: The scientific renaissance of mind-altering drugs | Sam Harris, Michael Pollan & more

Negotiation is NOT about logic

Mitigate loss aversion

Why the world is going crazy—and how to win back our minds | Jamie Wheal | Big Think

Emotionally intelligent decisions

Slavoj Žižek on Synthetic Sex and "Being Yourself" | Big Think

Music’s power over your brain, explained | Michael Spitzer

Is reality real? These neuroscientists don’t think so | Big Think

Try “listener’s judo”

Revive your attention span in 12 minutes with neuroscientist Amishi Jha

How dirty debaters win against better opponents | Bo Seo

Psychologist debunks 8 myths of mass scale | Todd Rose

6 ways to heal trauma without medication | Bessel van der Kolk | Big Think

Practice your negotiating skills

Slavoj Žižek on Refugees, Conservatism, and Cultural Incompatibility

The Common Character Trait of Geniuses | James Gleick | Big Think

How the body keeps the score on trauma | Bessel van der Kolk for Big Think+

The 10 tactics of fascism | Jason Stanley | Big Think

The secret habits that control your life | Wendy Wood

3 scientists school flat Earthers on the evidence | Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Michelle Thaller

How Penn Jillette Lost over 100 Lbs and Still Eats Whatever He Wants

Berkeley professor explains gender theory | Judith Butler

40,000 years of music explained in 8 minutes | Michael Spitzer

The idea of black holes

How ‘flow state’ can heal trauma | Steven Kotler for Big Think

25. Sam Harris (Neuroscientist) – Uncomfortable Conversations

Introduction

Bored out of your mind at work? Your brain is trying to tell you something. | Dan Cable | Big Think

How America Got Divorced from Reality: Christian Utopias, Anti-Elitism, Media Circus | Kurt Andersen

John Waters Misses Perverts

Henry Rollins: The One Decision that Changed My Life Forever | Big Think

Brian Cox on how black holes could unlock the mysteries of our universe

How to optimize your gut and brain bacteria | Dave Asprey | Big Think

William Ackman: Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing in Under an Hour | Big Think

Is consciousness an illusion? 5 experts explain

The science of sex, love, attraction, and obsession | Big Think

Intro

Michio Kaku has some news about simulation theory

Black Hole Information Paradox

Why modern America creates fragile children | Jonathan Haidt

What is game theory?

Slavoj Žižek: Why There Are No Viable Political Alternatives to Unbridled Capitalism | Big Think

What is trauma? The author of “The Body Keeps the Score” explains | Bessel van der Kolk | Big Think

Hawking Radiation

Why so many people work “bullshit jobs”| James Suzman | Big Think

Neil deGrasse Tyson: 3 mind-blowing space facts | Big Think

Slavoj Žižek on Why You’re Never Really Alone With Your Sexual Partner

Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain | Big Think

Anyone Can Be a Math Person Once They Know the Best Learning Techniques | Po-Shen Loh | Big Think

Is marriage dying? | Richard Reeves

Human sexual desire: Is monogamy natural? | Esther Perel, Chris Ryan & more | Big Think

How to win a negotiation, with former FBI hostage chief Chris Voss

How Penn Jillette Lost over 100 Lbs and Still Eats Whatever He Wants | Big Think

What a black hole looks like

The Singularity

Before #Oppenheimer's A-bomb, there was napalm #shorts

Will America’s disregard for science be the end of its reign? | Big Think

6 ways to heal trauma without medication, from the author of “The Body Keeps the Score”

Abortion and Personhood: What the Moral Dilemma Is Really About | Glenn Cohen | Big Think

The Multiverse is real. Just not in the way you think it is. | Sean Carroll

Personal finance: How to save, spend, and think rationally about money | Big Think

Why Einstein is a “peerless genius” and Hawking is an “ordinary genius” | Albert-László Barabási

How to spot high-conflict people before it’s too late | Bill Eddy | Big Think

Exposing Liberal Hypocrisy and Conservative Close-Mindedness | Van Jones | Big Think

Back To School with Punkle Henry (Rollins)

How Apple and Nike have branded your brain | Your Brain on Money | Big Think

Navy SEAL Has a '40 Percent Rule' And It's the Key to Overcoming Mental Barriers | Big Think

Is a capitalist-socialist economy inevitable? | Big Think

The physics of entropy and the origin of life | Sean Carroll

Why you should want to suffer | Paul Bloom

Has the sexual revolution backfired? | Louise Perry

Your reptilian brain, explained | Robert Sapolsky | Big Think

Physics’ greatest mystery: Michio Kaku explains the God Equation | Big Think

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Atheist or Agnostic? | Big Think

Who You Find Attractive Is Based on How Hot You Are | Dan Ariely | Big Think

Slavoj Žižek on Synthetic Sex and "Being Yourself"

How meditation can change your life and mind | Sam Harris, Jon Kabat-Zinn & more | Big Think

How Russia’s war in Ukraine is birthing a new global order | Ian Bremmer

The great free will debate | Bill Nye, Michio Kaku, Robert Sapolsky, Steven Pinker & more

5 ways to build an Alzheimer’s-resistant brain | Lisa Genova

How religion turned American politics against science | Kurt Andersen | Big Think

Comedian Neal Brennan shares how to quiet your inner critic

Skepticism: Why critical thinking makes you smarter | Bill Nye, Derren Brown & more | Big Think

The “afterlife” according to Einstein’s special relativity | Sabine Hossenfelder

The art of asking the right questions | Tim Ferriss, Warren Berger, Hope Jahren & more | Big Think

Quantum Theory of Gravity

How Discourse Creates Homosexuality

What inspired you to write your book, “Good Arguments”?

Beat anxiety with the most addictive experience on Earth | Steven Kotler

Slavoj Žižek: Democracy and Capitalism Are Destined to Split Up | Big Think

Is there life after death? | Sam Harris, Bill Nye, Michio Kaku, & more | Big Think

13. "Reply All" Hosts PJ & Alex – Future Crime/Personal Yoda/Bonus Track

The Universe in 90 minutes: Time, free will, God, & more | Sean Carroll

John Waters's Favorite Bars

“Einstein would probably be in an autism program today” | Temple Grandin for Big Think+

Why men and boys are struggling | Richard Reeves

The world’s biggest problem? Powerful psychopaths. | Brian Klaas

Jeffrey Brenzel: The Essential Value of a Classic Education | Big Think

Antifragility: How to use suffering to get stronger | Jonathan Haidt & more

I study demonic possession dreams. Here’s what we’ve found. | Patrick McNamara

Time: Do the past, present, and future exist all at once? | Big Think

You can slow down aging with zero weird tricks | Dr Morgan Levine

Kids don’t always make you happier. Here’s why people have them anyway. | Paul Bloom

Billionaire warlords: Why the future is medieval | Sean McFate | Big Think

Julia Galef: The Sunk Costs Fallacy | Big Think

Judith Butler: Your Behavior Creates Your Gender | Big Think

Master your anxiety. Unleash your genius | Jesse Eisenberg

14. Freakonomics' Stephen Dubner – Free $#!+/Hidden Costs

Michio Kaku: 3 mind-blowing predictions about the future | Big Think

Bjarne Stroustrup: Why I Created C++ | Big Think

9. Henry Rollins, pt. II – American Trauma/The Word "Genius"

How to Win with Game Theory & Defeat Smart Opponents | Kevin Zollman | Big Think

Truth vs Reality: How we evolved to survive, not to see what’s really there | Donald Hoffman

Try psychedelics. Access transcendence. | James Fadiman

Political scientist Ian Bremmer on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

‘The Art of War’: The greatest strategy book ever written | Roger Martin

The #1 way to strengthen your mind is to use your body | Wendy Suzuki

What you cant share

Why haven’t we found aliens? A physicist shares the most popular theories. | Brian Cox

5. Clint Smith – Genetics/Racism/Harvard

How to win a negotiation | Chris Voss, Dan Shapiro & more | Big Think

Sam Harris: The Self is an Illusion | Big Think

11. Tina Roth Eisenberg (AKA @swissmiss) – Culture Theory/Color Theory

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

The 5 core principles of life | Nobel Prize-winner Paul Nurse

What are some effective debate models from history?

Anthropologist debunks Darwin’s most abused idea | James Suzman

Navy SEALs: How to build a warrior mindset | Big Think

7. Baratunde Thurston – Stupidity Scaled/Robot Rights/Brand You

3. Wendy Suzuki – Brain Health/Consumerism/Women In Science

Antidepressants Make it Harder to Empathize, Harder to Climax, and Harder to Cry.

Michio Kaku: Why Physics Ends the Free Will Debate | Big Think

Think more rationally with Bayes’ rule | Steven Pinker

3 game theory tactics, explained

Henry Rollins on Gay Marriage | Big Think

How loneliness is killing us, according to a Harvard professor | Robert Waldinger

Expand your perception. Change your life. | Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

Michio Kaku: Quantum computing is the next revolution

Why religion is literally false and metaphorically true | Bret Weinstein | Big Think

Become excellent. Be unreasonable. | Will Guidara for Big Think+

When black holes disappear, what happens to the stuff that fell in?

Why does rationality matter?

If money doesn’t buy happiness, you’re spending it wrong | Your Brain on Money

5 ways to unlock your brain’s ancient pleasure centers | Jamie Wheal for Big Think

Trump’s not the problem. He’s a symbol of 4 bigger issues. | Ian Bremmer | Big Think

7 dimensions of depression, explained | Daniel Goleman, Pete Holmes & more | Big Think

When have you let go

The 4 biggest ideas in philosophy, with legend Daniel Dennett for Big Think+

Most consistent and greatest hope

Your brain doesn’t detect reality. It creates it. | Lisa Feldman Barrett

18. Junot Díaz (Pulitzer-Winning Novelist) – Double Lives/Hidden Culture

The four types of planetary civilizations, explained by Michio Kaku

The grindset has left us depressed. Here’s one thing that can save us. | Lisa Miller

Who is attracted to policing jobs? | Brian Klaas

3 signs that you’ve hit clinical burnout and should seek help | Laurie Santos

How porn f*cked our minds | Louise Perry

Debate world champion explains how to argue | Bo Seo

How can we measure human progress?

10 biggest world threats of 2023, ranked | Ian Bremmer

How to live an intellectual life | Zena Hitz | Big Think

Adults Need to Stop Blaming Their Parents

How to detect baloney the Carl Sagan way | Michael Shermer | Big Think

3 great untruths to stop telling kids—and ourselves | Jonathan Haidt | Big Think

Does Quantum Physics Confirm The Occult?

The Optimism of Melancholia

28. Daniel Levitin (musician & neuroscientist) – Rats/Risks/Rewards

Brian Cox on quantum computing and black hole physics

9 tactics to build a stronger mind | Lisa Genova

Facts Don't Win Fights: Here’s How to Cut Through Confirmation Bias | Tali Sharot | Big Think

Habits: How to be successful every day | Dan Ariely, Gretchen Rubin & more | Big Think

She studied extreme psychopaths. Here’s what it taught her about human nature | Abigail Marsh

The most powerful way to think about money | Paula Pant

4. Bill Nye – Geek Chic/TMI/Future Money

How to have better sex | Esther Perel, Emily Nagoski & more

Do humans have souls? | Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder

How to live after your soulmate has died | Michelle Thaller

32. James Doty, MD (Neurosurgeon) – Compassion and The Prison State

Penn Jillette on Libertarianism, Taxes, Trump, Clinton and Weed

The disappearance of men | Christine Emba

3 ways to defend your mind against social media distortions

How to have "real" orgasms | Emily Nagoski

Why do some artists become famous? | Albert-László Barabási

Do less, become happier, says Yale cognitive scientist | Laurie Santos

Is science about to end? | Sabine Hossenfelder

Are we a rational or an irrational species?

Nick Bostrom on the birth of superintelligence

Nick Bostrom on the birth of superintelligence

Penn Jillette on Atheism and Islamaphobia

Bjarne Stroustrup: The 5 Programming Languages You Need to Know | Big Think

Slavoj Žižek: Events and Encounters Explain Our Fear of Falling in Love | Big Think

35. A.O. Scott (Film Critic) – The Right to Be Wrong

Become an intellectual explorer: Master the art of conversation | Emily Chamlee-Wright | Big Think

2. (Henry Rollins) Monogamy/Sexual Opportunism

Generative AI is not the panacea we’ve been promised | Eric Siegel for Big Think+

How to date, mate, and find fulfillment | Helen Fisher & more

The #1 antidote to aging | Daniel Lieberman, Morgan Levine & more

What are cognitive illusions and do they explain irrationality?

Are drugs really frying your brain? | Dr. Carl Hart

5 conversation skills that enhance your rational brain | Irshad Manji

How do institutions both enable and hinder progress?

How does cancel culture stifle rationality?

Is your view of progress optimistic?

The mind-bending physics of time | Sean Carroll

Why do new technologies tend to increase irrational thinking?

What’s a situation where people tend to neglect Bayesian reasoning?

What is Bayesian reasoning?

When can a focus on Bayesian reasoning become problematic?

How can narrative thinking skew our perception of the world?

How useful is Bayesian logic for everyday reasoning?

Why is Bayesian reasoning indispensable for scientists and AI researchers?

Why is it so hard to get people to use Bayesian reasoning?

What are the current threats to rationality and progress?

27. Alva Noë (Philosopher) – The Upside of Boredom

8. Maria Konnikova -– Mindset/Creativity/Suburban B-Boyz

Penn Jillette: Reading the Bible (Or the Koran, Or the Torah) Will Make You an Atheist | Big Think

Bryan Cranston: One Thing All Young People Should Do While They're Still Young | Big Think

34. Paul F. Tompkins (Comedian) – A Tiny, Cosmic Threat

17. Norman Lear – An Authentic Horse's Ass/The Capacity to Choose

The ultimate guide to rationality, with Harvard’s Steven Pinker

Sam Harris: Religions Are Failed Sciences | Big Think

Sal Khan's plan to educate the world | Big Think

Slavoj Žižek: Coronavirus, Black Lives Matter, and revolution | Big Think Edge

The true story behind Carl Sagan’s cult classic, Contact | Jill Tarter for Big Think

Jordan Peterson: Career vs. motherhood: Are women being lied to? | Big Think

I went to space and discovered an enormous lie | Ron Garan

3 Brain Systems That Control Your Behavior: Reptilian, Limbic, Neo Cortex | Robert Sapolsky

The Optimism of Melancholia | Slavoj Žižek | Big Think

Psychedelics could heal your trauma, says neuroscientist Rachel Yehuda

The ‘alpha male’ myth, debunked | Frans de Waal

Does your job match your personality? | Jordan Peterson | Big Think

Master your anxiety. Unleash your genius | Jesse Eisenberg for Big Think+

What makes someone gay? Science is trying to get it straight. | Alice Dreger | Big Think

The most popular explanation for the gender pay gap is wrong | Richard Reeves

Slavoj Žižek on Why You’re Never Really Alone With Your Sexual Partner | Big Think

The Science of Love, with Dr. Helen Fisher | Big Think

Economist explains the two futures of crypto | Tyler Cowen

We’re wired for conformity. That’s why we have to practice dissent. | Todd Rose for Big Think

John Waters: Coming Out Is So Square