Think Again – a Big Think Podcast

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 psychologist Daniel Kahneman, authors Margaret Atwood and Marylinne Robinson, entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, painter Chuck Close, and philosopher Daniel Dennett.

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61. Alison Gopnik (Developmental Psychologist) ...
Alison Gopnik, one of the world's foremost experts on child cognition, learning, and development, and host Jason Gots discuss play, artificial intelligence, and the trouble with "parenting" as a verb.
42 min
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60. Teju Cole (Writer) – The World is Not a Set...
Spontaneous, deep talk on surprise topics. Nigerian-born novelist, essayist, and NYTimes photography critic Teju Cole and host Jason Gots discuss first drafts, the complexities of home, and the greatest innovation in human history.
40 min
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59. Jacqueline Woodson (Writer) – Bored Kid Dre...
Spontaneous, deep talk on surprise topics. National Book Award-winning Author Jacqueline Woodson and host Jason Gots discuss collective amnesia, organized religion, the power of photographs, and why never being bored is bad for for kids.
34 min
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58. Mixtape #2 – Staring at the Sea
In the second of two "year one in review" mixtapes, host Jason Gots curates the best moments thus far of Think Again - a Big Think Podcast, with excerpts from conversations with Henry Rollins, Kate Tempest, Sarah Jones, Mary-Louise Parker, and A.O. Scott
45 min
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57. Mixtape #1 - Lies/Monsters/Friendship/Relig...
The Best of Year One, part 1: with Sam Harris, Junot Diaz, Maria Popova, Saul Williams & Jesse Ventura
46 min
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56. Jonathon Keats (Experimental Philosopher) –...
Buckminster Fuller, vicarious sex, taboos and how to get around them
47 min
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55. Mary Roach (Science Writer) – To Nietszche ...
Squeamishness, Penis transplants, and Dark Matter, oh my!
32 min
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54. LIVE! Sarah Jones (actor/playwright) –
Playing many different characters, Tony and Obie award-winner Sarah Jones responds to surprise "big ideas" in Think Again podcast's first ever live show at NYC Podfest
37 min
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53. Sean Wilentz (Historian) – The Culture Stri...
Demagoguery, colonizing Mars, and the perpetual pendulum of party politics.
35 min
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52. Jim Gaffigan (Comedian) – You're Attacking ...
Mean jokes, bigotry, courage, and bringing light vs. darkness into the world.
38 min
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51. Krista Tippett (Author, Host, "On Being") –...
Messiness, mystery, and the slipperiness of the words we need most.
41 min
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50. Ethan Hawke (Actor, Author) – The High, Har...
Spirituality, steroids, drone warfare and the complicated past America has left behind.
48 min
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49. Geoff Dyer (Author) – Ordinary Epiphanies
Revenge, Hallucinogens, and a spontaneous William Blake Smackdown
38 min
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48. Mary-Louise Parker (Actress, Author): Virtu...
Death, Bob Marley, parenthood, gratitude, and what to do in the face of incalculable suffering.
33 min
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47. Kate Tempest (rapper/poet/novelist): Lost a...
On the stories we tell ourselves about who we are.
36 min
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46. Chris Gethard (Comedian) – a Blessing in Di...
"Cult" Comic Chris Gethard talks authenticity, the power of small communities, con artists, improv, and more.
37 min
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45. James McBride (Author) – Fear Sells Many a ...
Smart people. Surprise topics. Deep fun. This week, National Book Award Winner James McBride
33 min
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44. Douglas Rushkoff (Media Theorist) – Hack th...
Money's an operating system. Businesses are apps. We can reprogram them.
34 min
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43. Michael Puett (Harvard Chinese Philosophy S...
Can ancient Chinese philosophy change your life?
32 min
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42. Joshua Cohen (Novelist) – Scrupulously Mess...
Surprise topics. Smart people. Deep fun.
32 min
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41. Sarah Kay (Poet) – Kids See Right Through T...
Smart people. Surprise topics. Deep fun. This week, poet Sarah Kay.
32 min
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40. Nikhil Goyal (Education Activist) – Mind in...
Smart people. Surprise topics. Deep fun. This week, 20 year old educational activist and author Nikhil Goyal.
33 min
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39. Maria Popova (Writer, Editor of Brain Picki...
Smart people. Surprise topics. Deep fun. This week, Maria Popova of Brain Pickings
37 min
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38. Amanda Palmer (Musician, Author) – Privacy ...
Smart people. Surprise topics. Deep fun. This week, Musician and Artist Amanda Palmer
32 min
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37. Cory Booker (US Senator) – Cynicism: a Refu...
Smart people. Surprise topics. Deep fun. This week, Senator Cory Booker
23 min