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.
Hosts & Guests
Scintillating Conversations!
03/07/2020
Stumbling onto these podcasts has been a breath of fresh air to me! The conversations are insightful, informative and all over the sphere of what it means to be human. They have taken me ‘home’ to where I used to be studying Anthropology for my undergrad, before things in life distracted me from the things I enjoy to ponder. Thank you, thank you, thank you Jason!
BLM
07/31/2020
No Black guests? Think again.
Excellent podcast!
02/18/2020
I've been listening to this show from the start. Jason just keeps getting deeper and deeper with these podcasts. The incredible conversation with Jennifer Doudna is worth listening to for everyone. I've been sharing this particular episode with friends and family. 2020 review update: This podcast keeps getting deeper! The new format provides much more relevant prompts for conversation. Thank you!
Great Podcast
01/15/2020
Think Again delivers smart, engaging, often funny interviews with people I’d mostly never heard of before, but am now glad I have. I’ve found some of my favorite books, movies, and podcasts by listening to Jason Gots’s interviews and then following up with the interviewees’ original works. If you are looking for something that will both spark your intellectual curiosity and engage you emotionally, look no further. It’s clear that Jason reads, watches, and listens to his subjects’ material closely in order to generate exceedingly smart, dynamic conversations. Awesome. My personal favorites (in no particular order, and keep in mind I’ve missed many of Think Again’s first year of interviews): Karen Armstrong (theologian) Reginal Dwayne Betts (poet) Etgar Keret (author) Marlon James (author) Christopher Wylie (Cambridge Analytica whistleblower) Jill Lepore (Historian) Jeffery Israel (political philosopher) Eve Ensler (author of The Apology) Wesley Yang (author of The Souls of Yellow Folk) Jonathan Safran Foer (on factory farming)
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- CreatorBig Think / Panoply
- Years Active2015 - 2020
- Episodes237
- RatingClean
- Copyright© @ 2015 Think Again
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