Batten down the hatches, people who work in tech support from Bangalore to Bangor. Google's tribute for today celebrates the invention of the bar code. Replacing those playground-friendly letters with […]

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What causes people to act as they do -- the way they're made, or the way they make, as they go through life? Often in the mind sciences, stable traits […]

Imagine life losing all semblance of stability and becoming subject to a series of occasionally terrifying hallucinations where you streak across the solar system. For Big Think's recent guest, Kay Redfield […]

General Electric chair and CEO Jeffrey Immelt, a 1978 Dartmouth graduate and trustee of the College, comments on the value of education—what he calls "the great equalizer." His comments were […]

Michael Porter, the Harvard Business School strategy guru, talks about one significant influence in his educational career—a student leadership position that led to business school and his entrance into academia. […]

Brown University President Ruth Simmons talks about how the profound impact of one teacher in a high school course changed her life. Her comments were taped on Sept. 21, 2009 […]

GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt, a 1978 Dartmouth graduate, says that to consider "change" and "social change" separately is a "losing proposition." His comments were taped on Sept. 21, […]

Um, why is Washington cutting Pakistan another check after it was revealed that only $500 million out of previous $6.6 billion package actually went toward fighting Taliban and other terrorists? […]

After all the debates over the efficacy of Canadian health care, the Canadian government is pursuing  a unique track in cutting the costs and easing some of the burden placed […]

Big Think sits with the Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and author of "Nothing Was the Same."

The classic understanding of suicide casts it as reactionary measure against a particular event or outcome, but Kay Redfield Jamison argues that it is typically the result of the prolonged […]

The author and professor of psychiatry, discusses the idea of death and her fear of 'frittering away time.'

After waking up from a coma after a suicide attempt, Kay Redfield Jamison realized that medication was her only remaining choice.

What happens when life loses any semblance of stability and one is subject to waves of cosmic and sometimes terrifying hallucinations? For Kay Redfield Jamison, a clinically bipolar professor of […]

Kay Jamison explains her willingness to discuss her husband's last years, and how she was helped through her own grief by the work of other writers.

Kay Redfield Jamison discusses how she and her late husband found profound delight in his final years as well as the commanding power of the grieving process.