Think Again - a Big Think Podcast
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Think Again - a Big Think Podcast is a arts podcast hosted by Big Think / Panoply. It has 237 episodes, with the latest published May 2020.
We surprise some of the world's brightest minds with ideas they're not at all prepared to discuss. With host Jason Gots and special guests Neil Gaiman, Alan Alda, Salman Rushdie, Mary-Louise Parker, Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Saul Williams, Henry Rollins, Bill Nye, George Takei, Maria Popova, and many more . . . You've got 10 minutes with Einstein. What do you talk about? Black holes? Time travel? Why not gambling? The Art of War? Contemporary parenting? Some of the best conversations happen when we're pushed outside of our comfort zones. So each week on Think Again, we surprise smart people you've probably heard of with hand-picked gems from Big Think's interview archives on every imaginable subject. The conversation could go anywhere. SINCE 2008, BIG THINK has captured on video the best ideas of the world’s leading thinkers and doers in every field, renowned experts including neurologist Oliver Sacks, physicist Stephen Hawking, behavioral psychol
arts ·en ·237 episodes
[SPECIAL] Clever Creature with Jason Gots - Episode 1: DESERT
235. Neil Gaiman (Jason Plays Favorites #7) – and then it gets darker
234. Robert MacFarlane (Jason Plays Favorites #7) – deep time rising
233. Terry Gilliam (Jason Plays Favorites #5) – the impossible dream
232. Anaïs Mitchell (Jason Plays Favorites #4) – sometimes the god speaks through you
231. Marlon James (Jason Plays Favorites #3) – don't get too comfortable
230. Eve Ensler (Jason Plays Favorites #2) – no way out but through
229. David Sedaris (Jason Plays Favorites #1) – Sir David of the Spotless Roadways
228. Sharon Salzberg (meditation and mindfulness teacher) – on balance
227. Roz Chast and Patricia Marx (cartoons, words, ukuleles) – The Beatles stole everything from us
226. Joseph Goldstein (dharma teacher) – doubt comes masquerading as wisdom
225. Jad Abumrad (Radiolab, Dolly Parton's America) – American Multiverse
224. Norman Fischer (zen priest, poet) – the only way out of the catastrophe we’re in
223. Karen Armstrong (theologian) – the art of getting outside of yourself
222. Deborah Levy (writer) – it's those thoughts that are slightly awkward that need an airing
221. Yancey Strickler (Kickstarter co-founder) – you, me, us: now and in the future
220. Elif Shafak (writer) – the cemetery of the companionless
219. Reginald Dwayne Betts (poet) – nothing to resurrect after prison
218. Bill Bryson (writer) – the most extraordinary machine
217. Ibram X. Kendi (author, activist) – Antiracism 101
216. Gail Collins (NY Times columnist) – The brief social media life of Glam-ma
215. Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie: the cognitive segregation of America
214. Liz Plank (journalist) – men, masculinity, and the unfinished conversation
213. Catherine Wilson (philosopher) – the Epicurean cure for what ails ya
212. Downton Abbey film director Michael Engler – the best idea in the room
211. Etgar Keret (writer) – a tunnel dug under the prison floor
210. one night in Istanbul, with chef Musa Dağdeviren
209. a mixtape for 2019
208. Antonio Damasio (biologist) – this incredibly rich machinery
207. Lisa Brennan-Jobs (writer) – on growing up without, with, and in spite of her dad
206. Jenny Odell (artist) – attention as an act of resistance
205. Jeffrey Israel (religious studies scholar, old friend) – Private hate, public love, and everything in between
204. The Butler Sisters (filmmakers) – identity, intolerance, and change in the American heartland
203. Elif Shafak (novelist) – The story no one hears
202. Tracy Edwards, MBE (British sailor) – If you don't like the way the world looks, change it
201. Chris Moukarbel (WIG and GAGA FIVE FOOT TWO filmmaker) – The closest thing to actual magic
200. Robert MacFarlane (writer) – deep time rising
199. Lama Rod Owens (RADICAL DHARMA co-author, Buddhist teacher) – the price of the ticket to freedom
198. Barbara Tversky (cognitive psychologist) – World makes mind
197. Eve Ensler (author, activist) – No way out but through
196. Susan Hockfield (MIT president emerita, neuroscientist) – Extraordinary machines
195. Adam Gopnik (essayist) – the rhinoceros of liberalism vs. the unicorns of everything else
194. Jared Diamond (Historian) – Look inward, Nation
193. Anaïs Mitchell (HADESTOWN creator, songwriter/singer) – sometimes the god speaks through you
192. Delphine Minoui (journalist) – Land of paradoxes: the inner and outer Iran
191. Simon Critchley (philosopher) – the philosophy of tragedy & the tragedy of philosophy
190. Terry Gilliam (filmmaker) - The impossible dream
189. Ross Kauffman (Oscar-winning filmmaker) – Tigers and the humans who love them
188. Frans de Waal (primatologist) – You're such a social animal
187. Aml Ameen (actor) - how the world teaches you who you are
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