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Quote of the day: “We have art in order not to die of the truth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Today’s Big Ideas: The National Intelligence Council’s New Report, by Ali Wyne […]
Dartmouth professor Marcelo Gleiser tackles the headache-inducing question of whether we can arrive at the end of knowledge.
“My daughter and I just finished reading Life of Pi together,” President Obama wrote to the novelist Yann Marteltwo years ago. “It is a lovely book,” the President continued, “an elegant proof of […]
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Psychologist Kevin Dutton presents the classic psychological test known as "the trolley problem" with a variation. Take the test and measure you response on the psychopathic spectrum.
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Big Think’s online course, “Great big Ideas,” was produced in partnership with The Jack Parker Corporation.
Just before leaving office in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a farewell message in which he warned of “the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the […]
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On a finance panel at The Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas held on Nantucket, Massachusetts in October, Larry Summers tackled the question of whether teutonic monetary virtue or monetary […]
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At The Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas held on Nantucket, Massachusetts in October, a panel comprised of finance heavyweights debated the big issues facing the economy, most notably the […]
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Grover Norquist stands to be a major player in the debate over how to face the upcoming fiscal cliff.
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Mark Ruffalo, Co-founder of Water Defense, adresses The Nantucket Project along with Mark Jacobson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and Marco Krapels, co-chairman of Rabobank’s corporate […]
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What is collective intelligence? Experts such as Matt Ridley weigh in on the mating of ideas and what it means for our future human prosperity.
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Today students graduate from college in the U.S. with a mountain of debt and a skill set deficit that leaves them unprepared for the challenges of succeeding in today’s knowledge […]
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A panel on technology and sheer courage disrupting autism at the 2012 Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas on Nantucket, MA.
We're simply not good at apologizing. It's awkward at best, says Alain de Botton, and at its worst an apology could lead to "an escalation in anger." That is why atonement is effective, as a ritual of mutual apologies.
In his blog post yesterday, Big Think’s own Adam Lee called into question the editorial standard that would have us introduce evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa as our newest blogger. Kanazawa […]
The top videos of summer, '12, featuring experts such as Neil deGrasse Tyson, Dr. Michio Kaku, Slavoj Zizek, Jaron Lanier and many others.
Now in its second year, The Nantucket Project is a festival of ideas that will be held on Nantucket, MA from October 5-8, 2012.
What’s the Big Idea? When it comes to making choices about benefits, keep it simple, says Bruce Finley, Senior Partner and the Director of Global Workplace Communication at Mercer — and calculate, […]
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Howard Dean: Any politician who tells the American people there aren’t going to be any sacrifices for everybody is a liar and I do not want the sacrifices to be […]