The Big Think Interview

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  The minimum viable intervention for a happier life | Tal Ben-Shahar 25.09.2026 1ชม. 21นาที

  Most of us can recite the benefits of exercise, gratitude, and patience while doing none of it. Tal Ben-Shahar calls this the Knowing-Doing gap, and our typical interventions, like retreats and month-long overhauls keep it open.
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  The lost art of rhetoric, from a 2x debate world champion | Bo Seo 18.09.2026 1ชม. 10นาที

  Two-time debate champion Bo Seo breaks down why arguments fail: the 4 bad-faith personas that hijack conversations, a four-question framework for picking fights worth having, and the surprising Cold War standoff between Nixon and Khrushchev that shows what staying composed under pressure actually looks like.
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  The science, medicine, and mythology of menstruation and menopause | Jen Gunter 11.09.2026 1ชม. 14นาที

  OBGYN Jen Gunter unpacks the science, history, and mythology of menstruation and menopause, and offers a guidebook to navigate the modern healthcare landscape.
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  The invisible forces that create talent and elite performance | Daniel Coyle 04.09.2026 1ชม. 24นาที

  Talent isn’t a gift we're born with – it’s a signal we’ve been reading completely wrong. Author Daniel Coyle breaks down the common traits shared by successful people, and why environment, not innate ability, is the variable that ties them all together.
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  The world's greatest mathematician explains 6 essential concepts of math | Terence Tao 28.08.2026 1ชม. 23นาที

  Terence Tao has spent decades solving problems most people can't even state, and he says he's never had a single eureka moment. In this conversation, the UCLA mathematician and Fields Medalist breaks math down to six essential ideas: numbers, algebra, geometry, probability, analysis, and dynamics.
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  The #1 predictor of relationships that are doomed to fail | Julie & John Gottman 21.08.2026 1ชม. 1นาที

  Every marriage’s disintegration is marked by the same four warning signs that researchers John and Julie Gottman can spot before a couple even finishes their first sentence.The founders of the Gottman Institute break down decades of lab research on why relationships collapse, and what to look for in a partner so they can make it 50 years by your side.
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  Psychologist: The blueprint for developing a healthy relationship with your emotions | Lisa Damour 14.08.2026 1ชม. 6นาที

  Stress has a branding problem. Clinical psychologist Dr. Lisa Damour argues that most of us have the wrong relationship with discomfort entirely, treating stress like a malfunction instead of what it actually is: a signal that we're growing.
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  Young people say their lives feel fake. Here’s why | Arthur Brooks 07.08.2026 1ชม. 53นาที

  Arthur Brooks studies happiness for a living, and he says the epidemic of depression and anxiety among young adults comes down to one culprit: a meaning crisis.Brooks walks through the biology of falling in love, the real formula behind human suffering, and why a Harvard study spanning 85 years found deep relationships to be the single strongest predictor of a happy old age.
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  Giulia Enders: The old-fashioned mindset that gets in the way of our healing 31.07.2026 1ชม. 7นาที

  Physician Giulia Enders spent years studying the gut before realizing no organ works alone. Here, she walks through 5 body parts — the lung, the immune system, the skin, the muscles, and the brain — and what each one reveals about how we work, heal, and recover.
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  A philosopher's guide to escaping your own echo chamber 24.07.2026 44นาที

  Philosopher Jonny Thomson walks through Dietrich Bonhoeffer's 3 conditions for the kind of stupidity that destroys societies: outsourcing your thinking to an authority, willful ignorance, and conformity. He shows how each one shows up today, from AI answering our moral questions to political parties enforcing loyalty over conviction.
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  Paul Bloom: The psychology of morality, perversion, and revenge 17.07.2026 1ชม. 7นาที

  Psychologist Paul Bloom has spent his career studying the parts of human nature we often feel uncomfortable examining: why loneliness feels like starvation, why people are drawn to behaving poorly, why revenge feels righteous until it destroys everything.Bloom argues that the US doesn't actually have a loneliness epidemic, it has a solitude epidemic, one being accelerated by AI companionship. 
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  The myth of the cult of genius, in 48 minutes 10.07.2026 48นาที

  A philosopher who walked away from an elite academic career to spend 3 years washing dishes in a monastery says that intellectual life has nothing to do with degrees. Zena Hitz argues that the real philosophers are taxi drivers, office clerks, prisoners: Everyday people who exist outside the cult of academia.
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  250 million years of dinosaur history, in 104 minutes 03.07.2026 1ชม. 44นาที

  Steve Brusatte, the paleontologist behind Jurassic World's science and author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Story of Birds, walks through what fossils actually prove versus what Hollywood invented. Brusatte traces dinosaurs back to footprints smaller than a house cat, found in Poland just after the worst mass extinction in Earth's history, and explains why those early survivors spent millions of years as background characters next to car-sized salamanders and armored crocodiles.
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  A neuroscientist’s guide to protecting your brain, in 58 minutes 26.06.2026 58นาที

  A retired Japanese engineer once memorized pi to over 111,000 digits using nothing but storytelling and visualization. He also forgot his wife's birthday that same year. Neuroscientist Lisa Genova uses this contradiction to dispel a persistent collective fear: that ordinary forgetting is an early warning sign of Alzheimer's.
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  Tim Spector: The science of the gut microbiome and chronic inflammation 19.06.2026 1ชม. 13นาที

  Could depression, dementia, and poor oral health all have one uniting link? The gut microbiome contains 200 more genes than human cells, and research shows its strong impact on mental illness, brain health, and chronic inflammation.Professor of epidemiology at King's College London Tim Spector breaks down the science of how gut microbes produce the chemicals that shape your mood, your immune system, and your cognitive health, and why the standard Western diet has been systematically destroying them for 50 years.
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  The 3-part habit loop your brain is running 40% of the time | Charles Duhigg 12.06.2026 1ชม. 27นาที

  About 40% of everything you do today is a habit your brain automated, and the neural loop driving it doesn't distinguish between good and bad habits.Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit and Supercommunicators, explains why trying to eliminate a bad habit is neurologically futile and why the habit that scares you most irrationally is probably the one change that rewires everything else.
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  Vanessa Van Edwards: 7 cues that make you instantly more likable 05.06.2026 57นาที

  You only have a few seconds to make a first impression, and the non-verbal cues you’re sending may be silently working against any kindness your words communicate. Charisma is learned, not innate, and even if you consider yourself an “awkward” person, you can still hack positive reception. Body language expert Vanessa van Edwards shares a genius formula to create a lasting first impression while debunking body-language myths and these mistakes you’re probably making in social situations.
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  The difference between creative people and you: Tolerance for useful restriction | David Epstein 29.05.2026 1ชม. 1นาที

  David Epstein, author of Range and Inside the Box, walks through decades of research exploring why constraints, not freedom, are the engine behind creativity, focus, and breakthrough.
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  The quantum realm, the cosmological realm, and the multiverse, in 69 minutes 22.05.2026 1ชม. 9นาที

  Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi takes us from the quantum realm to the cosmological and out to the multiverse, answering physics’ underexplored questions. He digs through the actual nature of electrons, why your speed through space is always borrowed from your speed through time,and why the Andromeda Galaxy is visible to the naked eye, yet almost no one has looked for it.
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  Bessel van der Kolk: The body’s silent record of trauma 19.05.2026 59นาที

  Trauma doesn’t vanish when danger does. According to psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, the body acts as an archive, holding fear, pain, and survival instincts long after the moment passes. Van der Kolk explains why conventional treatments for trauma fall short, and the promising new pathways to healing that science is revealing.