Big Think (videos of July 2017)

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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:
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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:
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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/CPTsV5
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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:
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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:
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8:39 Artificial Intelligence Is the New Science of Human Consciousness | Joscha Bach Follow Big Think here:
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Big Think (videos of June 2017)

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5:21 The Evolution of Homosexuality: From Criminal, to Mentally Ill, to Equal | Bennett Singer It wasn't that long ago, says Bennett Singer, that our nation's most progressive doctors considered homosexuality a psychological disease. That goes to show how far we have come—in areas like gay m...
10:15 3 Ways to Stop Racism: Diversity Exposure, Bias Intervention, Cross-Race Friendships | Lori Markson There's no getting around it: we're all a little bit biased. But when do harmful implicit biases, like racial judgements, form? Developmental psychologist Lori Markson and her colleagues have ident...
6:45 The Neuroscience of Creativity, Perception, and Confirmation Bias | Beau Lotto To ensure your survival, your brain evolved to avoid one thing: uncertainty. As neuroscientist Beau Lotto points out, if your ancestors wondered for too long whether that noise was a predator or no...
6:11 Is Race Genetic or Socially Constructed? | Philip Kitcher How many different races are there? Pick a number, any number, says philosophy professor Philip Kitcher. Wherever there is an agenda there is a division to be made; race is a social construct with ...
5:39 CRISPR's Gene Drive Could Revive Extinct Species–or Create New Ones | Jennifer Doudna Gene-editing tool CRISPR is already poised to be one of the biggest inventions of the 21st century, and co-creator Jennifer Doudna already has big ideas for different ways to use it. There's a pote...
7:38 3 Brain Systems That Control Your Behavior: Reptilian, Limbic, Neo Cortex | Robert Sapolsky Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5
6:05 How Our Cognitive Biases Create Emotional Conflict, and How to Rise above It | Dan Shapiro  Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/dan-shapiro-why-we-start-emoti...
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4:30 LGBTQ Revolution: Coming Out, Harvey Milk, Live-Saving Statistics | Bennett Singer Not everyone is in a position where it is wise or safe to come out as gay, lesbian, trans, or bisexual—but for those who can, it is a heroic and revolutionary act. We've known that since Harvey Mil...
4:23 Faith and Hope Are Two Different Philosophical Mindsets | Sam Newlands If faith is what bolsters the believers, could hope be a form of secular prayer? What is the difference between faith and hope, anyway? Philosophy professor Sam Newlands explains that while the two...
3:50 Goal Setting Is a Hamster Wheel. Learn to Set Systems Instead. | Adam Alter You've just achieved a goal you've been working towards for two years. You did it! Congratulations. Someone asks you: how does it feel? "Kind of anti-climactic, actually," you say. This scenario is...
10:10 How Some People Predict Disasters before They Happen: ISIS, Katrina, Fukushima | Richard Clarke Noticing a pattern emerge in the aftermath of some of the worst catastrophes in recent years—like Hurricane Katrina, Fukushima, and the formation of ISIS—global security experts Richard A. Clarke a...
6:39 What Climate Science Can (and Can’t) Predict | Philip Kitcher People tend to bandy around the term "scientific consensus" a lot, particularly when talking about climate change. When 97% of the scientific community agrees that climate change is a real thing, y...
4:25 Why Buy Things You Only Use Once? Enter the Subscription Economy | Kevin Kelly Could you imagine owning nothing? Depending on your stance on the concept of ownership, Kevin Kelly has a either a startling window into the future or an idea that will make your head spin. Take th... 

7:22 CRISPR 101: Curing Sickle Cell, Growing Organs, Mosquito Makeovers | Jennifer Doudna Jennifer Doudna was a pioneer of CRISPR, which is a gene-editing technology that is being increasingly studied and used across the world. Jennifer relates the genesis of CRISPR to us and explains t...
9:57 The Truth about Job-Taking Machines, Globalization, and Mexican Trade | Robert Kaplan The US economy has spawned a vicious cycle that few people are talking about, but it's one that affects us all. You, right now, are likely caught in that ugly loop. In fact, it's what may one day s...
9:38 Cornel West: The Difference Between Justice and Revenge Institutions—governmental, religious, financial, even revolution itself—have a way of turning stale and sour. "Thank God for the history of the heretics and the blasphemers. That's my crowd," says ...
5:14 Career Advice from a Woman Who Ruled Wall Street | Sallie Krawcheck Sallie Krawcheck is the current CEO of Ellevest (a digital investment platform for women), is a former CFO and CEO at Citigroup and Merrill Lynch respectively, and is a self-described "financial fe...
4:07 Bill Nye on Manmade Earthquakes, Tectonic Plates, and Fracking Earthquakes are usually pretty scary, but they are a natural part of life on Earth. The reason they are devastating to humans is because we have built buildings and cities on top of ground that is ...
8:26 The Science of Learning: How to Turn Information into Intelligence Cramming for a test and having a hard time understanding something? Might be best to go away and come back after a while. Your brain is constantly fluctuating between a "learning" mode and an "unde...
9:15 Universal Mathematics: All Life on Earth Is Bound by One Spooky Algorithm Read more at BigThink.com:
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5:27 The Neuroscience of Lies, Honesty, and Self-Control | Robert Sapolsky Follow Big Think here:
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8:56 How Cognitive Biases Bend Reality: Private Optimism vs. Public Despair | Neuroscientist Tali Sharot Think you’re not an optimist? Neuroscience begs to differ. Dr. Tali Sharot explains that 80% of people globally present with the optimism bias—even if they describe themselves as pessimists or real...
10:20 Alan Alda: Grow Your Empathy Through Better Visual Perception The simple act of noticing someone's eye color can build your empathy, explains Alan Alda, who got so curious about empathy one day that he began to experiment on himself. Any time he'd interact wi...
7:25 Neil deGrasse Tyson: Dark Matter, Dark Gravity, Ghost Particles, & the Essence of All Objects There's something fundamental we all need to understand about dark matter—it may not actually be matter at all. Neil deGrasse Tyson has a bone to pick with this misnomer that is distracting physici...
2:21 Why Atheists and Believers Are Actually Agnostic | Bill Nye Would a world full of atheists be best? Some people dream of the day religion fades away, but for others the mere hypothetical is a form of blasphemy. Imagine, just like John Lennon asked us to: wo...
6:30 Google Searches May Be the Best Measure of Human Nature Yet | Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Seth Stephens-Davidowitz has a sneaking suspicion that we might not be all that honest with each other. Instead, we seem to be far more honest with a website. The things that people type into the G...
11:26 Capitalism 2.0 Will Include a Healthy Dose of Socialism | Eric Weinstein  YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5
6:14 How Russia's Election Meddling Revolutionized Propaganda | Jordan Greenhall Follow Big Think here:
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5:38 Why Schools Should Teach Skepticism Above Obedience | Lawrence Krauss “You can can get more information in your cell phone now than you can in any school, but you can also get more misinformation,” says American-Canadian theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss. And he’...
11:38 3 Warnings to Stop Global Catastrophe: CRISPR, AI, & Robots | Richard Clarke Low probability events, such as an extinction-level asteroid striking the Earth's surface, deserve more attention than their unlikelihood would suggest. The reason? The magnitude of their impact is...