Fitocracy is a social fitness network that rewards its users with experience points, allowing them to level up and complete fitness “quests” with other users, creating a fun and challenging […]

Spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen will be joining us on Big Think Live this Friday at 4pm Eastern time. His philosophy and spiritual method, evolutionary enlightenment, is an approach to achieving […]

What’s the Big Idea? The words “Renaissance man” get thrown around a lot these days, but Nathan Myrhvold’s career evokes the true spirit of the phrase. More polymath than genius, the […]

What’s the Big Idea? Sometimes you have to be bad in the service of being good, say coauthors and cofounders Frances Frei (a professor at Harvard Business School) and Anne […]

Free will has long been a fraught concept among philosophers and theologians. Now neuroscience is entering the fray. For centuries, the idea that we are the authors of our own […]

Pro is a professional development toolkit delivering interactive multimedia courses to equip you with the skills you need to rise through the ranks of the professional world. Whether you’re an […]

What’s the Big Idea? For corporations, growth is a quarterly concern — a hope maybe, but not a necessity. For small businesses and nonprofits, stagnation isn’t an option: it’s grow […]

Pay attention, get focused, be vigilant, stay on task, keep your eye on the ball, listen up, get your head in the game: these are just a few of the […]

What’s the Big Idea? On average, students pay $35,000 a year for the privilege of being educated at a private nonprofit American college. In December of 2011, indebtedness among college […]

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..."Immigration is an integral part of the story Americans tell themselves about who they are. So why is it so difficult to immigrate here?  

Watch an extended version of our interview with Lynda Weinman, co-founder of Lynda.com: What’s the Big Idea? Lynda Weinman quite literally wrote the book on web design. She was 28 […]

Afghan Star, which airs on Tolo (one of the Moby channels), is the most popular program in Afghanistan. Mohseni is the Executive Producer. It is the Afghan version of Dancing […]

One of the most prominent scientists to express doubts about climate change scenarios in the future is the physicist Freeman Dyson, who responds to critics in two videos on Big Think.   

In the video below, author Gretchen Rubin describes two frequent mistakes people make in setting goals for themselves. Watch the video here:

This short animation was submitted to Big Think by Morgan Miller. You can visit his site at www.slushingbrooks.com. “Slushing Brooks is the name of the fictious working class neighborhood where most of […]