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Tony Blair speaks before his keynote at the Global Education and Skills Conference,
Peter Singer on the ethics of how drones are like viruses and vice-versa.
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David Gergen, Lisa New and Chris Matthews weigh in on the question of America’s Exceptionalism.
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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.
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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.