

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast
Big Think / Panoply
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.
- 20 episodes
- Updated May 13, 2020
Episodes20
May 13, 2020 · 40 min
Mar 22, 2020 · 1 hr235. Neil Gaiman (Jason Plays Favorites #7) – and then it gets darker
Mar 14, 2020 · 1 hr 3 min234. Robert MacFarlane (Jason Plays Favorites #7) – deep time rising
Mar 7, 2020 · 53 min233. Terry Gilliam (Jason Plays Favorites #5) – the impossible dream
Feb 29, 2020 · 1 hr232. Anaïs Mitchell (Jason Plays Favorites #4) – sometimes the god speaks through you
Feb 22, 2020 · 56 min231. Marlon James (Jason Plays Favorites #3) – don't get too comfortable
Feb 15, 2020 · 1 hr 2 min230. Eve Ensler (Jason Plays Favorites #2) – no way out but through
Feb 8, 2020 · 1 hr 4 min229. David Sedaris (Jason Plays Favorites #1) – Sir David of the Spotless Roadways
Feb 1, 2020 · 51 min228. Sharon Salzberg (meditation and mindfulness teacher) – on balance
Jan 25, 2020 · 45 min227. Roz Chast and Patricia Marx (cartoons, words, ukuleles) – The Beatles stole everything from us
Jan 18, 2020 · 57 min226. Joseph Goldstein (dharma teacher) – doubt comes masquerading as wisdom
Dec 21, 2019 · 47 min225. Jad Abumrad (Radiolab, Dolly Parton's America) – American Multiverse
Dec 14, 2019 · 1 hr 1 min224. Norman Fischer (zen priest, poet) – the only way out of the catastrophe we’re in
Dec 7, 2019 · 51 min223. Karen Armstrong (theologian) – the art of getting outside of yourself
Nov 30, 2019 · 44 min222. Deborah Levy (writer) – it's those thoughts that are slightly awkward that need an airing
Nov 23, 2019 · 1 hr 1 min221. Yancey Strickler (Kickstarter co-founder) – you, me, us: now and in the future
Nov 16, 2019 · 59 min220. Elif Shafak (writer) – the cemetery of the companionless
Nov 9, 2019 · 1 hr 3 min219. Reginald Dwayne Betts (poet) – nothing to resurrect after prison
Nov 2, 2019 · 52 min218. Bill Bryson (writer) – the most extraordinary machine
Oct 26, 2019 · 47 min217. Ibram X. Kendi (author, activist) – Antiracism 101