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Think Again - a Big Think Podcast — 237 episodes
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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
186. Josh Clark (podcaster) - It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
185. Martin Hägglund (philosopher) – What happens to freedom when time is money
184. Mitchell S. Jackson (writer) – Notes from the other America
183. Will Hunt (explorer) – into the Earth: the mysteries and meanings of underground spaces
182. Ha Jin (writer) – the wild and tragic life of China's greatest poet, Li Bai
181. Marlon James (writer) – don’t get too comfortable
180. Benjamin Dreyer (copy chief of Random House) – Really actually truly great English
179. Edith Hall (classicist) – from Aristotle to Oprah and back again: how to live your best life
178. Douglas Rushkoff (freelance intellectual) – It's not the technology's fault
177. Joseph Goldstein (Buddhist teacher) – Lighten Up: mindfulness, enlightenment, and everyday life
176. Area 51 and the epistemology of the unexplained - Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell (filmmaker)
175. Helen Riess (psychiatrist) – Empathy in the brain and the world
174. Ruth Whippman (writer) – A mindful, productive, super-positive nation of nervous wrecks
173. Wesley Yang (writer) - The Souls of Yellow Folk
172. A trans family in the holy land
171. Michelle Thaller (NASA astronomer) on the multiple dimensions of space and human sexuality
170. Lynsey Addario (photojournalist) – on art, love, and war
169. Ben Marcus' reality is only slightly askew from our own
168. Michael Palin (writer and comic) – So long as there was laughter, I was safe
167. Gary Shteyngart (writer) - Reality catches up to dystopian fiction
166. Manoush Zomorodi (journalist) — How blockchain might save journalism. Maybe.
165. Man Booker prize winners Olga Tokarczuk (author) and Jennifer Croft (translator) — As fact and fiction blur, America’s finally ready for Olga Tokarczuk
164. Jill Lepore (Historian) – Why America keeps going to pieces
163. Four Letter You – Merve Emre (scholar and critic)
162. Emily Nemens (Editor, The Paris Review) — The Literary Industrial Complex
161. Congo: This Seemingly Impossible Knot – Daniel McCabe (documentary filmmaker)
160. Bassem Youssef (political satirist) – Now I Have to Answer for This?
159. Change is Made by the Ones Who Stay – Paula Eiselt (documentary filmmaker)
158. Parker Posey (actor) – I See a Dachshund In You
157. The Spiders From Mars – Jason Heller (Hugo Award-winning writer)
156. While You Live, Shine – Christopher C. King (Grammy-winning music producer)
155. Lauren Groff (writer) – We Should Die of That Roar
154. Jonathan Safran Foer (writer) – One Thing We Can All Agree Upon
153. Guns: The Genie and the Bottle – Priya Satia (Historian)
152. Where You Gonna Run To? Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo (documentary filmmakers)
151. Jessica Abel (cartoonist, creative coach) – Practical Magic
150. David Sedaris (humorist) – Sir David of the Spotless Roadways
149. Yanis Varoufakis (former finance minister of Greece) – Happiness, Inc.
148. Jonathan Lethem (writer) – Batman's Greatest Enemy
147. Ronan Farrow (investigative journalist) — A Failure to Communicate
146. Think Again LIVE with Kristen Radtke (graphic novelist) – The Fascination of What's Difficult
145. Michael Gazzaniga (neuroscientist) – The Impossible Problem
144. Antonio Damasio (neuroscientist & philosopher) – Where is My Mind?
143. The Way Brothers (documentary filmmakers) – City On a Hill
142. Meg Wolitzer (writer) – Messages From Another Planet
141. Tara Westover (writer, historian) – Nothing Final Can Be Known
140. Martin Amis (writer) – The Spooky Art
139. Neil Gaiman (writer) – And Then it Gets Darker
138. Steven Pinker (Cognitive Scientist) – The Defeat of Defeatism
137. Amy Chua (author, attorney) – U.S. & Them
136. Michio Kaku (physicist) – Timid Monkeys on Mars
135. Niall Ferguson (historian) – The Ghost of Future Past
134. Jacob Sager Weinstein (children's author) – Imaginary Histories, Possible Futures
133. Jeremy Bailenson (VR expert) – Through the Looking Glass
132. Karl Ove Knausgaard (writer) – The Way I Should Be in the World
131. Daniel Alarcón (writer) – There's No Such Thing as Glamor, Really
130. Mark Epstein, MD (Buddhist psychiatrist) – I, Me, Mine
129. Fatih Akin (film director) – This Blood-Drenched Earth
128. Noël Wells (actor/director) – Out of Context
127. Manoush Zomorodi (journalist) – The Upside of Downtime
126. Maya Jasanoff (Historian) – Civilization and Its Discontents
125. Reza Aslan (author) – Deus Ex Hominem
124. Juli Berwald (writer) – Our Jellyfish Overlords
123. (Henry) Rollins, Redux: Monogamy+Genius+Violence
122. David Eagleman (neuroscientist) – Your Creative Brain
121. Van Jones (social entrepreneur) – Blind Spots & Sore Spots
120. Nancy Koehn (Historian) – Holdin' on for a Hero
119. Aaron Mahnke (of 'Lore') – The Hunger for Mystery
118. Stephen Greenblatt (humanities scholar) – Irresistible Fictions
117. Kurt Andersen (writer) – The Sleep of Reason
116. Claire Messud (writer) – All These Falls From Grace
115. Salman Rushdie (writer) – A Permeable Frontier
114. 2017 Mixtape #2 – Words, Values, Self, Other
113. 2017 Mixtape #1 – Mind, Body, Authenticity, Artifice
112. Richard Dawkins (biologist) – Red in Tooth and Claw
111. Ari Shaffir (Comic) – The Golden Age of Trolling
110. Peter Frankopan (historian) – You Can't Stop the Clock
109. Sheelah Kolhatkar (Writer, Former Hedge Fund Analyst) – The Most Dangerous Game
108. Jeff Garlin (Comedian) – K.I.S.S.
107. Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland (Authors) – The Garden of Forking Paths
106. Alan Alda (Actor) – The Spirit of the Staircase
105. Jennifer Doudna (Geneticist) - Intelligent Redesign?
104. Timothy Spall (Actor) – That Double Want
103. Liza Jessie Peterson (Playwright, Arts-Educator) – The Sleeping Giant
102. Paul Theroux (Writer) – Saintly & Scowling
101. Ariel Levy (Writer) – Big Things That Are Not Talked About
100. Neil deGrasse Tyson (Astrophysicist) – The Only "-ist" I Am
99. Mary Gaitskill (Writer) – Their Animal Being
98. Lawrence Krauss (Physicist) – Lux Ex Machina
97. Dean Buonomano (Neuroscientist) – This is Your Brain on Time
96. Sarah W. Goldhagen (Architecture Critic) – Souls & Spaces
95. Kory Stamper (Lexicographer) – Lair of the Level 10 Word Mage
94. Joyce Carol Oates (Writer) – Oh, That's Socialism
93. Adam Alter (Social Psychologist) – Ping!
92. Elif Batuman (Writer) – The Worst Appetizer in America
91. Daniel Dennett (Philosopher) – Thinking About Thinking About Thinking
90. Scott Aukerman (Comedy Writer) – The Buttons You Push
89. George Saunders (Author) – Self-Googling In Hell
88. Gish Jen (Author) – The Self in the World
87. Yuval Noah Harari (Historian) – Time's Up
86. Ayelet Waldman (Author) – Yourself, Only Better
85. Ben Goertzel (A.I. Inventor) – The State of the Art of Artificial General Intelligence
84. Nato Thompson (Artistic Director) – The Friendly Face
83. Matt Taibbi (Journalist) – Bread and Circus
82. Bernard-Henri Lévy (Philosopher) – The Mirror of Our Better Selves
81. Isy Suttie (Comedian) – There's Something a Bit Smug about the Sea
80. Amani Al-Khatahtbeh (founder: MuslimGirl) – Who Tells Your Story?
79. Paul Bloom (Psychologist) – Cold-Blooded Kindness
78. Peter Godfrey-Smith (Philosopher) – Alien Intelligence
77. Anne Rice (Author) – In the Blood
76. Tim Ferriss (Author, Podcaster) – Productively Frivolous
75. David Salle (Artist) – The Enemy of Art
74. Jace Clayton AKA DJ/Rupture - Sonic Veils and Revelations
73. T.C. Boyle (Author) - Lost on Purpose
72. Slavoj Žižek (Philosopher) - Against Tolerance
71. Jelani Cobb (Historian) - Shiny New Skin, Same Old Snake
70. Margaret Atwood (Author) - The Good, The Bad, and The Stupid
69. Jodi Picoult (Author) - Popular Fictions/Not Yours to Tell
68. William Shatner (Actor, Author) – Yes, I Am Trying to Win This Podcast
67. James Gleick (Science Writer) - Everything All at Once
66. Alton Brown (Chef, Author) - Easy-Bake Oven/Hard Knock Life
65. Ian McEwan (Novelist) - A King of Infinite Space
64. Mixtape #4 – The Writers' Room
63. Eric Kandel (Nobel Laureate neuroscientist) - The Eye of the Beholder
62. Mixtape #3 – a Soupçon of Ornithology
61. Alison Gopnik (Developmental Psychologist) – Artificial Intelligence/Natural Stupidity
60. Teju Cole (Writer) – The World is Not a Settled Gift
59. Jacqueline Woodson (Writer) – Bored Kid Dreaming/Apologies Long Overdue
58. Mixtape #2 – Staring at the Sea
57. Mixtape #1 - Lies/Monsters/Friendship/Religion/Space Aliens
56. Jonathon Keats (Experimental Philosopher) – The Trickster/Castles in the Sky
55. Mary Roach (Science Writer) – To Nietszche His Own
54. LIVE! Sarah Jones (actor/playwright) –
53. Sean Wilentz (Historian) – The Culture Strikes Back
52. Jim Gaffigan (Comedian) – You're Attacking My Grandpa?
51. Krista Tippett (Author, Host, "On Being") – We Are Made by What Would Break Us
50. Ethan Hawke (Actor, Author) – The High, Hard Road/Ghosts of the Apache Wars
49. Geoff Dyer (Author) – Ordinary Epiphanies
48. Mary-Louise Parker (Actress, Author): Virtual Empathy?/Lessons Relearned
47. Kate Tempest (rapper/poet/novelist): Lost and Found in South London
46. Chris Gethard (Comedian) – a Blessing in Disguise
45. James McBride (Author) – Fear Sells Many a Car/James Brown is a Noun
44. Douglas Rushkoff (Media Theorist) – Hack the $ystem
43. Michael Puett (Harvard Chinese Philosophy Scholar) – Freedom Through Ritual
42. Joshua Cohen (Novelist) – Scrupulously Messy, by Which I Mean Human
41. Sarah Kay (Poet) – Kids See Right Through That
40. Nikhil Goyal (Education Activist) – Mind in a Box
39. Maria Popova (Writer, Editor of Brain Pickings) – The Absurdity of Not Writing Poems
38. Amanda Palmer (Musician, Author) – Privacy Is Weird
37. Cory Booker (US Senator) – Cynicism: a Refuge for Cowards
36. Yann Martel (Author) – The Vacuum of Space Leaves Me Cold
35. A.O. Scott (Film Critic) – The Right to Be Wrong
34. Paul F. Tompkins (Comedian) – A Tiny, Cosmic Threat
33. Marc Goodman (Cybersecurity Expert) – Dark Web/Nigerian Princes
32. James Doty, MD (Neurosurgeon) – Compassion and The Prison State
31. Michael Shermer (Author, Friendly Skeptic) – A Dirty Job/We Want to Believe
30. Howard Gardner (Psychologist) – Porn/Art/Good Work
29. Sir David Hare (Playwright/Screenwriter) – Kleptocracy/A Thin Skin
28. Daniel Levitin (Musician & Neuroscientist) – Rats/Risks/Rewards
27. Alva Noë (Philosopher) – The Upside of Boredom
26. Ian Edwards (Comedian) – Sex/Guns/Honesty is Honesty
E25. Sam Harris (Neuroscientist) – Uncomfortable Conversations
24. Maira Kalman (Artist) – Scared of Math/Psycho Killer
23. Orhan Pamuk (Nobel Novelist) – Write to Live/No Logic In War
22. Wendell Pierce (Actor, 'The Wire') – Godot Ain't Coming
21. Saul Williams (Poet, Musician, Actor) – An Army of Poets/the 10,000 Things
E20. Jesse Ventura (Wrestler, Governor) – Off the Grid/Life on Mars
19. Ruth Reichl (Food Critic) – Identity Crisis/The Cooking Cure
18. Junot Díaz (Pulitzer-Winning Novelist) – Double Lives/Hidden Culture
17. Norman Lear (TV Legend) – An Authentic Horse's Ass/The Capacity to Choose
16. Jane McGonigal (Game Designer) – Game On!/Death to "Gamification"
15. Salman Rushdie (Novelist) – Happiness/Monsters
14. Freakonomics' Stephen Dubner – Free $#!+/Hidden Costs
13. "Reply All" Hosts PJ & Alex – Future Crime/Personal Yoda/Bonus Track
12. George Takei (Actor + Activist) – Ego/Focus/Xenophobia
11. Tina Roth Eisenberg (AKA @swissmiss) – Culture Theory/Color Theory
10. Mark Epstein (Buddhist Psychotherapist) – Nature/Nurture/Neither
9. Henry Rollins (Artist), pt. II – American Trauma/The Word "Genius"
8. Maria Konnikova (Author) – Mindset/Creativity/Suburban B-Boyz
7. Baratunde Thurston (Comedian, Cultural Critic) – Stupidity Scaled/Robot Rights/Brand You
6. Brian Greene (Theoretical Physicist) – Student for Sale
5. Clint Smith (Poet, Educator) – Genetics/Racism/Harvard
4. Bill Nye (Science Guy) – Geek Chic/TMI/Future Money
3. Wendy Suzuki (Neuroscientist) – Brain Health/Consumerism/Women In Science
2. Henry Rollins (Artist) – Monogamy/Sexual Opportunism
1. Jason Silva (Futurist) – Awe/Information Overload
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