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Google’s “Genie” could be used to create a wide range of interactive environments for more than just games.
There are only a precious few minutes of totality during even the best solar eclipses. Don't waste yours making these avoidable mistakes.
The Reitoff principle gives us permission to "write off" a day and intentionally step away from achieving anything.
The secret sauce of humor is incongruity. AI knows this as well as we do.
The former Nintendo president has become synonymous with the backlash against layoffs — because, like a great leader, he focused on lifting people.
Neuroscientist Tali Sharot recently spoke with Big Think about a two-step method for escaping the dark sides of habits.
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Actor, author, and director Jesse Eisenberg demystifies the role of anxiety and self-doubt in leadership.
What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.
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When one path is blocked, a new one must be paved. How Einstein, Heisenberg and Gödel used constraints to make life-changing discoveries:
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James Fadiman PhD, who has 60 years of experience in the field, believes they are.
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Big Think spoke with animator and animation historian Tom Sito about the cyclical evolution of animation.
Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.
How to juggle while walking a tightrope — at work.
Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
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The creative force behind The Vampire Diaries explains how she learned to deal with her insecurities.
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Neuroscience supports the notion that an escape from conventional perspectives can be a gateway to spectacular insights.
IBM veteran Daniel Sabbah learned from experience how to lead through the challenges of demand and innovation.
The most celebrated genius in human history didn't just revolutionize physics, but taught many valuable lessons about living a better life.
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Jim Lee, President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics, tells us how his childhood obsession with Superman changed his life.
Unlikely Collaborators
An effective strategic approach to unlocking and selecting truly innovative solutions.
With great power comes retcon responsibility.
Take it from teamwork gurus behind Apple and Star Wars — a new kind of psychological incubator will allow your creativity to flourish.
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Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, rock icon Steve Albini, and comedian Fred Armisen told Kmele how they make sense of the world — and leave their mark on it.
The essential element needed for innovation is creative dissonance — and the keys to unlocking it were forged by bankers in Italy.
AIs can imitate but not innovate — for now, at least.
Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.
The reported supremacy of generative AI over human brain-power in business ideation depends on how you define “better.”
Katie Kermode — a memory athlete with four world records — tells Big Think about her unique spin on an ancient technique to memorize unfathomably long lists of information.
Discover the ancient wisdom of not pushing the river.
“To take this in, you need to ride inside the mathematical symbols.”