Think Again – a Big Think Podcast

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Think Again – a Big Think Podcast

198. Barbara Tversky (cognitive psychologist) – World makes mind

You’re a body in the world. From the moment you’re born, from that very first gasp of air, you’re...

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197. Eve Ensler (author, activist) – No way out but through

Note: I feel I should let listeners know that this episode of Think Again is about surviving and...

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196. Susan Hockfield (MIT president emerita, neuroscientist) – Extraordinary machines

“Are we in the best of times? Or the end of times? One of the oddities of the current era is that...

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194. Jared Diamond (Historian) – Look inward, Nation

Imagine yourself a German citizen the day after the end of World War II. Much of your city is...

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192. Delphine Minoui (journalist) – Land of paradoxes: the inner and outer Iran

I remember visiting New York when I was 18 and thinking about coming here for college. How badly...

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191. Simon Critchley (philosopher) – the philosophy of tragedy & the tragedy of philosophy

Well into her 90’s, my grandma Selma and I had this running conversation about the state of the...

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190. Terry Gilliam (filmmaker) - The impossible dream

Faith in anything is its own special form of madness. It’s a challenge to entropy, and...

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189. Ross Kauffman (Oscar-winning filmmaker) – Tigers and the humans who love them

I was thinking this morning that It’s funny how “humane” is the only word we have for that idea,...

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188. Frans de Waal (primatologist) – You're such a social animal

When I was a kid, there used to be a TV commercial for this series of animal videos you could...

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187. Aml Ameen (actor) - how the world teaches you who you are

They say Confucius said “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” I did the...

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186. Josh Clark (podcaster) - It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

I like to think. If I didn’t, this would be the wrong job for me. But I realize that as...

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185. Martin Hägglund (philosopher) – What happens to freedom when time is money

What gets a wolf or a pigeon up in the morning? No offense to wolves or to pigeons, but it’s...

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184. Mitchell S. Jackson (writer) – Notes from the other America

We’re all living inside concentric circles of private and public, inner and outer. From the time...

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183. Will Hunt (explorer) – into the Earth: the mysteries and meanings of underground spaces

The first time I attempted to play Minecraft with my then-seven-year-old son, we immediately dug...

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182. Ha Jin (writer) – the wild and tragic life of China's greatest poet, Li Bai

Let’s start with a very old poem : On the bank of Caishi River is Li Bai’s grave Surrounded...

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181. Marlon James (writer) – Don’t get too comfortable

At this point, it’s very rare to read something and find myself thinking: This is something new....

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180. Benjamin Dreyer (copy chief of Random House) – Really actually truly great English

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who don’t give a damn about grammar, style, or...

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