Think Again - a Big Think Podcast
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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,...
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237 Episoden[SPECIAL] Clever Creature with Jason Gots - Episode 1: DESERT
NOTE: This is a special guest episode of Jason's new podcast Clever Creature. Please subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your...
235. Neil Gaiman (Jason Plays Favorites #7) – and then it gets darker
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting M...
234. Robert MacFarlane (Jason Plays Favorites #7) – deep time rising
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting M...
233. Terry Gilliam (Jason Plays Favorites #5) – the impossible dream
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting M...
232. Anaïs Mitchell (Jason Plays Favorites #4) – sometimes the god speaks through you
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting M...
231. Marlon James (Jason Plays Favorites #3) – don't get too comfortable
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting M...
230. Eve Ensler (Jason Plays Favorites #2) – no way out but through
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting M...
229. David Sedaris (Jason Plays Favorites #1) – Sir David of the Spotless Roadways
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting M...
228. Sharon Salzberg (meditation and mindfulness teacher) – on balance
Since 1976, Sharon Salzberg has been sharing ancient meditation and mindfulness practices in a voice the contemporary West can understand. Her warm, f...
227. Roz Chast and Patricia Marx (cartoons, words, ukuleles) – The Beatles stole everything from us
Thelma and Louise, Ponch and John, Pancho and Lefty, Quixote and Sancho Panza, Marx and Engels, Marx and Chast…history and literature are full of magi...
226. Joseph Goldstein (dharma teacher) – doubt comes masquerading as wisdom
Freedom. Everyone wants it, but knowing where to look for it is another matter. And to make matters worse, the world is full of things that feel like...
225. Jad Abumrad (Radiolab, Dolly Parton's America) – American Multiverse
If you’d told me a couple months ago that a podcast about Dolly Parton could move me deeply and raise all kinds of questions that go straight to the w...
224. Norman Fischer (zen priest, poet) – the only way out of the catastrophe we’re in
The other day on social media a friend asked what the heck is up with this Mr. Rogers revival. Why does everyone suddenly love this guy so much? Momen...
223. Karen Armstrong (theologian) – the art of getting outside of yourself
I’ve spent more of my life than most people I know immersed by choice in what my guest today would call “scripture”. I was never much of a Roman Catho...
222. Deborah Levy (writer) – it's those thoughts that are slightly awkward that need an airing
While reading Deborah Levy’s novel THE MAN WHO SAW EVERYTHING and her recent “working autobiography” THE COST OF LIVING I often found myself pausing a...
221. Yancey Strickler (Kickstarter co-founder) – you, me, us: now and in the future
The phrase “common sense” can be misleading. The way we use it in casual conversation, it means something like “that which is obvious to any sensible...
220. Elif Shafak (writer) – the cemetery of the companionless
“Maybe the opposite of goodness is not evil. Maybe the opposite of goodness is, in fact, numbness.”
There are so many questions we never ask. S...
219. Reginald Dwayne Betts (poet) – nothing to resurrect after prison
Some experiences change you so completely that you’re left with a choice: either spend your life running from them or spend your life turning them ove...
218. Bill Bryson (writer) – the most extraordinary machine
Do you have a body? I do, but I was mostly unaware of this fact until somewhere in my mid-30s, when my life strategy of living like a bourbon-loving b...
217. Ibram X. Kendi (author, activist) – Antiracism 101
I grew up in the almost entirely white suburbs of 1980’s Bethesda, Maryland thinking of myself and my world as 100% not racist. It’s hard to notice wh...
216. Gail Collins (NY Times columnist) – The brief social media life of Glam-ma
In 1972, the year I was born, there was apparently a famous TV ad for Geritol. My guest today describes it thus:
“…a husband spoke to the camera...
215. Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie: the cognitive segregation of America
I don’t even know where to begin with this one. You’ve probably heard of Cambridge Analytica. Maybe you know they’re a company that did some nefarious...
214. Liz Plank (journalist) – men, masculinity, and the unfinished conversation
In the past half century or so feminism has had its hands plenty full dealing with the abuse and inequality women suffer at the hands of horribly beha...
213. Catherine Wilson (philosopher) – the Epicurean cure for what ails ya
If the word ‘epicurean’ brings to mind a porcine man in a toga reclining on a velvet couch and dropping fat juicy grapes into his open mouth, one by o...
212. Downton Abbey film director Michael Engler – the best idea in the room
Like too many of us, I hated history classes throughout my school career, and only realized as an adult that there are few things more interesting to...
211. Etgar Keret (writer) – a tunnel dug under the prison floor
“A conversation is like a tunnel dug under the prison floor that you—patiently and painstakingly—scoop out with a spoon. It has one purpose: to get yo...
210. one night in Istanbul, with chef Musa Dağdeviren
There’s a pattern that happens with any new thing. First it’s scary, then you settle in to a rhythm, then you hit your stride, then you get too attach...
209. a mixtape for 2019
When I was a teenager and music was still on cassettes, a mixtape was an act of love. The selection and sequence of songs were a kind of message to th...
208. Antonio Damasio (biologist) – this incredibly rich machinery
Quick question. Answer without thinking too hard. Ready? Where is your mind? What is your mind?
Ok, Raise your hand if you thought of your brai...
207. Lisa Brennan-Jobs (writer) – on growing up without, with, and in spite of her dad
The first computer I ever had was the first Apple Macintosh, back in the mid 80’s. I can still remember the sense of friendly reassurance from that sm...
206. Jenny Odell (artist) – attention as an act of resistance
When I think of my childhood home in Bethesda, Maryland, depending on what kind of mood I’m in, I think either of the mall or of the woods. Although t...
205. Jeffrey Israel (religious studies scholar, old friend) – Private hate, public love, and everything in between
A Rabbi, a Priest, and an Imam walk into a bar. No, wait. Imams don’t drink. Most rabbis don’t drink much either, come to think of it. Priests drink—a...
204. The Butler Sisters (filmmakers) – identity, intolerance, and change in the American heartland
In spite of all the weird ways the word has been abused since the 2016 elections, I think of myself as a liberal. As a basic value, I try to be open-m...
203. Elif Shafak (novelist) – The story no one hears
After four years and just over 200 conversations for this podcast, I’m feeling the need for a new kind of politics. One that would champion uncertaint...
202. Tracy Edwards, MBE (British sailor) – If you don't like the way the world looks, change it
What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done? The thing everyone said was impossible, that you knew you had to do anyway, and that you doubted a thousan...
201. Chris Moukarbel (WIG and GAGA FIVE FOOT TWO filmmaker) – The closest thing to actual magic
When I was in middle school in the suburbs of Maryland, a man—let’s call him Robert—started doing some occasional gardening and housecleaning for my p...
200. Robert MacFarlane (writer) – deep time rising
I’m underground as I write this, one day before taping the conversation you’re about to hear, speeding through New York City subway tunnels that aren’...
199. Lama Rod Owens (RADICAL DHARMA co-author, Buddhist teacher) – the price of the ticket to freedom
Like Mick Jagger, the Indian prince we know as The Buddha taught that we can’t get no satisfaction from this world, though we try and we try, and we t...
198. Barbara Tversky (cognitive psychologist) – World makes mind
You’re a body in the world. From the moment you’re born, from that very first gasp of air, you’re taking in sensations, trying to get a handle on thin...
197. Eve Ensler (author, activist) – No way out but through
Note: I feel I should let listeners know that this episode of Think Again is about surviving and thriving in the face of unspeakable trauma and sexual...