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Big Think As the prominent professor Cornel West explains, the great musicians—like John Coltrane, Curtis Mayfield, Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan—understand life in all its bristling glory: find your passion, never leave it, and become a prisoner to the hope that it matters.

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Cornel West: Yeah, but the thing about indifference is that it's always a choice that we make, you see. So that if you choose to have an iciness of soul and a hardening of heart and a coarsening of conscience, that leads towards indifference. ...
David W. G. Flowers
David W. G. Flowers
he might suggest Jesus as a not bad partner in that passionate and hopeful journey but I'm just guessing.
November 9 at 2:45pm
Andree-Anne
Andree-Anne
I'm totally in love wih John Coltrane's music
November 10 at 3:05pm
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As the legendary evolutionary biologist explains, human intercourse is far from a basic fact of life as the act throws away half of our genes and is therefore entirely irrational from an evolutionary perspective. Read More
Edward Grove
Edward Grove
Perhaps a warning should be posted in singles bars and chat rooms.
October 26 at 6:20pm
Vicki S. Nikolaidis
Vicki S. Nikolaidis
Dawkin's mind works in a strange way.
Warning signs sounds like good idea :-)
October 27 at 2:55am
Paul A. Toth
Paul A. Toth
I wonder how the Viagra business will adapt? "Erections: You don't need them. Want them."
October 30 at 10:59am
Justin Marshall Chipman
Justin Marshall Chipman
The above statement forgets about the primary fact of human existence--that we work better when we work with each other. It is like when we try to run our own business. If we think that we are "throwing away" half our profits on employees we won't get anywhere.
November 5 at 11:39am
David W. G. Flowers
David W. G. Flowers
In a paradigm that acknowledges the possibility of individual rationality, all sex outside the act of procreation is irrational.
November 9 at 6:27am
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Big Think King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia recently opened a
major research university, KAUST, with an endowment to rival Harvard's.
Will it help lead Saudi Arabia to Western-style modernism?

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Robert Lacey: A few weeks ago I went to the opening of King Abdullah’s new university. It’s called KAUST, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and it’s supposed to rival MIT. ...
Norma Fares
Norma Fares
Great question. I'm sharing it on my modest blog so we could bring more people to discuss such a major "event" that is happening in Saudi Arabia. The first question that comes to mind is that opening a mix campus would be enough to explore the needed change in an era of globalisation?
November 1 at 6:31pm
Paul A. Toth
Paul A. Toth
It can't hurt; but the real change will come when the government stops supporting schools that promote hatred and bigotry.
November 5 at 6:39am
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Big Think Nixonland author Rick Perlstein wonders if any U.S. President will be able to be truly post-partisan given the nature of movement conservatives.

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Rick Perlstein: Well, the problem with Obama’s post-partisan agenda is that he came into it. He came into his presidency at a time when millions of Americans, perhaps even tens of millions of Americans don’t consider a democrat president legitimate. ...
Constance Philips
Constance Philips
I think it's pretty fair to say that Obama is definitely not post-partisan. Despite his partisan leanings, however, I think that Mr. Obama's presidency marks a new age of pragmatism and openness to criticism in American politics. I think, in particular, his ability to reconsider his security stances -- e.g., toward CIA interrogation tactics and ... See Moredesired levels of confidentiality -- are extremely interesting, though I tend to disagree with him on those issues. But really, what does he know that I don't (a question I've been asking myself a lot these days)? I can only imagine that type of information that he's exposed to that the general public never sees.
October 22 at 5:03pm
Paul A. Toth
Paul A. Toth
The American public never tires of proving how idiotic it is. He would be despised by conservatives if he turned to the trickle-down "theory." And we all know why.
October 30 at 11:00am
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Big Think Carrie Battan wonders who likes Facebook more: the British or Americans?

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When news comes out of Twitter using its social networking dominance to market its own brand of wine, it’s easy to get the sense that people might be ushering out Facebook (and everything else, for ...
Erwin Kamil
Erwin Kamil
That's interesting!
October 21 at 10:39am
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Big Think Kurt Andersen wonders: Are today's serious, subversive novelists destined for permanent obscurity?

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Kurt Andersen: Well, first of all, there is the problem of novelists being all that celebrated in America if they're very serious as a novelist. I'm not -- well, it's an interesting question. I think, ...
Paul A. Toth
Paul A. Toth
I absolutely agree with this point. I've been saying it for a long time. The early Mailer would never make it today. Successful novels are either television on paper or memoirs (most of which are novels).
October 30 at 11:03am
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Big Think Arianna Huffington, Gay Talese, and many others discuss their biggest concerns for our time in Big Think's series, "What Keeps You Up at Night?"

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Norma Fares
Norma Fares
People who go to bed when I start working...surfing my internet and connecting with the people/friends who mean to me in a peace-of-mind. The silence of the night is just magical!
November 3 at 11:15pm
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Big Think Psychologist
Alison Gopnik has proven that thinking like a baby unlocks creativity, enhances sensation, and sparks new ideas. She explains why drinking an espresso with your lover in Paris is the key to arriving at this
beneficial infantile state.

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Bart Leahy
Bart Leahy
Never mind getting in touch with our inner child, we've now gotten in touch with our inner infant...good grief!
October 30 at 5:19am
Jane Smith
Jane Smith
Start sucking........(your thumb)
November 8 at 10:24pm
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Big Think Josh Lieb had worked in the writer's rooms of comedy successes from the Simpsons to the Daily Show, but he warns those who want to follow in
his footsteps that the job is full of more frustrations than glory. If
there's anything else you can do, he says, do that.

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Big Think Do shows like Heroes and X-Men reveal our collective ambivalence toward evolution? Priscilla Wald, a professor at one of Big Think's partner institutions, Duke University, believes so.

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