The Latest from Big Think

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MIT's Robert Langer explains why great leadership is determined by the quality of your questions.
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Lions, lightning, and rivers all have one thing in common. We can use the laws of nature to build a regenerative economy and fix rampant inequality.
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Modern life hinges on satellite connectivity. President of Kraus Aerospace Fatema Hamdani explains how the science of perpetual flight is unfolding, and how to defend satellites and drones from enemy fire.
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Book-smarts don't mean anything if you don't know how to apply them to life.
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Economist Jeffrey Sachs discusses how the megarich can help millions of children by donating 1 percent of their wealth.
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Want to solve problems faster? Learn to unleash your connectional intelligence.
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MIT professor Robert Langer is a prolific American inventor in medicine. His advice? Don't follow the money, do meaningful work.
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Are university safe spaces killing intellectual growth?
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Great again? Why America stopped looking forward to the future.
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Mindfulness practices can considerably improve the symptoms of depression and anxiety, especially when used with psychotherapy.
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Transformation of big companies is really important if we want to create a system that is fairer, more sustainable and less unequal.
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Meritocracy doesn't work when some people benefit from the system disproportionately.
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Diplomacy is not always pretty and much of the work of diplomats is misrepresented and politicized but it is absolutely essential to keep the world at peace.
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You are leaking data, and absorbing it, says Yale historian Timothy Snyder. But for whose benefit?
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If you want to avoid conversation dead ends, remember to "turn" the conversation more than you "take it," says entrepreneur and author Andrew Horn.
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Do you know your rights? Hit refresh on your constitutional knowledge!