7:41 How I Overcame Homelessness Twice to Become a Billionaire | John Paul DeJoria John Paul Dejoria has had a rough ride to the top. Yet being homeless twice and being abandoned by his wife early on didn't shake his drive to make it in this word, and he's managed to turn an admi... 
9:38 Why Donald Trump Is Actually Obama’s Natural Successor | Michael Slaby "History is decided by the people that show up," and about 60 million people — about 1/5th of the country — showed up to vote for a boorish reality TV star with no experience in politics. It shocke... 
2:22 4 Incredible Words with No English Equivalent: What Is Grief-Bacon? | Kory Stamper The Oxford Dictionary estimates that there may be, at the very least, a quarter of a million distinct English words—not counting technical and scientific vocabulary, regional slang, or inflections—... 
11:04 Cornel West: Hope Is Spiritual Armor Against Modern Society's Spiritual Warfare There is a spiritual war happening in the United States, and to be silent is to be complicit, says Dr. Cornel West. He takes his starting point at the elimination of arts programs under Reagan in t... 
4:06 What's Wrong with Journalism Today? Narrative, Click Bait, Story Quotas | Matthew Hiltzik Journalists care so much about being first that they've forgotten about being good. What is "good" journalism? For one thing, says PR strategist Matthew Hiltzik, it's responsible and it doesn't pla... 
9:21 Social Media's Dark Side: How Facebook and Snapchat Try to Steal Our Self-Worth | Tristan Harris In the 1970s, at the dawn of personal computers, people like Steve Jobs and the scientists at Xerox PARC talked about computers as "bicycles for our mind". Sure, someone was going to make big money... 
6:35 Brain Bias: Why You Shouldn't Emulate Geniuses and Their Rigid Thinking Processes | Barbara Oakley How do you get out of a mental feedback loop? The smartest people—call them geniuses or what you will—tend to shut down outside voices and tend to only listen to sources that they know they'll agre... 
6:57 Universal Basic Income, the 30-Hour Workweek, and the Economics of Poverty | Michael Slaby Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here:YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5
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4:00 Why You Should Read Philosophy: Truth, Knowledge, and Meaning Philosophy provides a new way of looking at the world and exploring ideas that otherwise might be too heavy, or too big, to comprehend. It's a lot better than the alternative—which is willful ignor... 
4:48 Erasing the Self, Living in a Dream, and Creating New Power Relationships with VR | Jordan Greenhall "The line between what it means to be dreaming and what it means to be awake is going to become very interesting," says Jordan Greenhall, CEO of Neurohacker. Virtual reality is perhaps the easiest ... 
7:22 Optimists Do It Longer: How a Positive Outlook Will Boost Your Longevity | Michael Scheier It's not considered ultra-cool to be an optimist in today's culture. Too much pep comes off as naïveté and we're just one motivational poster away from self-implosion. But do you know what is cool?... 
8:49 Which Jobs Will Machines Take Over? Movie Critics, Doctors, Truckers... So, what will your second career be? There's no playing coy with it anymore: intelligent machines are coming for our jobs, but rather than let this be a point of fear and the start of even greater ... 
6:58 Knowing How to Tell a Good Story Is Like Having Mind Control | Alan Alda People who are natural storytellers make it look easy, but cut to the moment you're in the hot seat—at an interview, a conference, or even in a social setting—and suddenly the suave-ness is not so ... 
3:49 Why Interest-Based Negotiation Will Get You What You Really Want Negotiation is part of life. Whether we're talking about something as grandiose as healthcare or as personal as buying a car, we often spend the vast majority of the negotiation process haggling ov...
10:16 Why Are Nations So Divided? Trump, Brexit, and the Struggle for Status There's a schism between the idealism of globalization—i.e. that a more connected, educated, and mobile world is going to make everything better—and that of populism, which demands a more insular, ... 
7:58 How a False Arrest Pushed Ex-Tennis Pro James Blake to Be a Voice for Police Accountability Follow Big Think here:YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5
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3:36 How to Control Your Rage, With Buddhist and Michelin Star Chef Eric Ripert Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/how-buddhism-helped-eric-riper... YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThin...
6:32 The Prison Project: How Can You Restore Humanity In an Inhumane System? In the last 35 years, California has built approximately 22 new prisons, and the state has one of the highest recidivism rates in the country. The US's prison industrial complex has been called Ame... 
8:07 Why the Best Scientists Are Open-Minded: Jane Goodall and Bali’s Water Temples Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/philip-kitcher-why-the-best-sc... YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTs... 
7:31 Do Humans Have Free Will, Or Are We Programmed By Society? | Joscha Bach For many years, Joscha Bach could not understand why humans flock so strongly towards religion and ideology. Having grown up in communist East Germany and seeing the people around him buy into nati... 
6:23 Job Automation: Are Writers, Artists, and Musicians Replaceable? You're probably reading this from either a smartphone or a laptop. It's no small secret that the device you're looking at can create works of art... if you put your mind to it. But therein lies the... 
10:06 Neil deGrasse Tyson: How to Teach Science? Leverage the Power of Pop Culture Pop culture is a great way to frame new information. And a teacher like Neil can make a huge difference. Why spend hours explaining something in great detail when you can simply use what they alrea... 
2:32 CRISPR Babies: Eugenics, Ethics, and Why Regulation Efforts Could Be Too Late Follow Big Think here:YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5
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6:09 Lawrence Krauss on How to Develop Your Critical Thinking Skills Strange answers aren’t inherently wrong, and satisfying answers aren’t inherently right, says Lawrence Krauss in this critical thinking crash course. The astrophysicist explains how principles of s... 
8:53 What Hope Actually Meant to Martin Luther King Jr. and President Obama Here's an exercise: If there's someone near you right now, ask them to define hope. Quickly. What did they say: was it motivational? Did it deal with future ambition, expectation, and desire? Histo... 
3:29 Questions about Sex That Women and Men Google the Most | Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Sex is a touchy subject. What people say about their sex lives—what they "self-report"—can bear little relation to the truth of the matter. Men famously inflate their number of sexual encounters wh... 
5:43 How Your Brain Is Getting Hacked: Facebook, Tinder, Slot Machines | Tristan Harris Casinos, magicians, and the makers of social media platforms all know something about you: your mind is very vulnerable to influence. Just as the magician relies on limitations in your short term m... 
4:32 The True Value of Coding: It Teaches You to Think Differently | Gene Luen-Yang As a high school teacher for 17 years, Gene Luen-Yang experienced the highs and lows of teaching computer science. Initially offered as a standalone course at Bishop O’Dowd High School, where Luen-... 
7:33 Guns, God, & Drugs: How to Negotiate America's Political Arguments | Dan Shapiro Follow Big Think here:YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5
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8:39 Artificial Intelligence Is the New Science of Human Consciousness | Joscha Bach Follow Big Think here:YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5
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