Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

[SPECIAL] Clever Creature with Jason Gots - Episode 1: DESERT

235. Neil Gaiman (Jason Plays Favorites #7) – and then it gets darker

234. Robert MacFarlane (Jason Plays Favorites #7) – deep time rising

233. Terry Gilliam (Jason Plays Favorites #5) – the impossible dream

232. Anaïs Mitchell (Jason Plays Favorites #4) – sometimes the god speaks through you

231. Marlon James (Jason Plays Favorites #3) – don't get too comfortable

230. Eve Ensler (Jason Plays Favorites #2) – no way out but through

229. David Sedaris (Jason Plays Favorites #1) – Sir David of the Spotless Roadways

228. Sharon Salzberg (meditation and mindfulness teacher) – on balance

227. Roz Chast and Patricia Marx (cartoons, words, ukuleles) – The Beatles stole everything from us

226. Joseph Goldstein (dharma teacher) – doubt comes masquerading as wisdom

225. Jad Abumrad (Radiolab, Dolly Parton's America) – American Multiverse

224. Norman Fischer (zen priest, poet) – the only way out of the catastrophe we’re in

223. Karen Armstrong (theologian) – the art of getting outside of yourself

222. Deborah Levy (writer) – it's those thoughts that are slightly awkward that need an airing

221. Yancey Strickler (Kickstarter co-founder) – you, me, us: now and in the future

220. Elif Shafak (writer) – the cemetery of the companionless

219. Reginald Dwayne Betts (poet) – nothing to resurrect after prison

218. Bill Bryson (writer) – the most extraordinary machine

217. Ibram X. Kendi (author, activist) – Antiracism 101

216. Gail Collins (NY Times columnist) – The brief social media life of Glam-ma

215. Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie: the cognitive segregation of America

214. Liz Plank (journalist) – men, masculinity, and the unfinished conversation

213. Catherine Wilson (philosopher) – the Epicurean cure for what ails ya

212. Downton Abbey film director Michael Engler – the best idea in the room

211. Etgar Keret (writer) – a tunnel dug under the prison floor

210. one night in Istanbul, with chef Musa Dağdeviren

209. a mixtape for 2019

208. Antonio Damasio (biologist) – this incredibly rich machinery

207. Lisa Brennan-Jobs (writer) – on growing up without, with, and in spite of her dad

206. Jenny Odell (artist) – attention as an act of resistance

204. The Butler Sisters (filmmakers) – identity, intolerance, and change in the American heartland

203. Elif Shafak (novelist) – The story no one hears

202. Tracy Edwards, MBE (British sailor) – If you don't like the way the world looks, change it

201. Chris Moukarbel (WIG and GAGA FIVE FOOT TWO filmmaker) – The closest thing to actual magic

200. Robert MacFarlane (writer) – deep time rising

199. Lama Rod Owens (RADICAL DHARMA co-author, Buddhist teacher) – the price of the ticket to freedom

198. Barbara Tversky (cognitive psychologist) – World makes mind

197. Eve Ensler (author, activist) – No way out but through

196. Susan Hockfield (MIT president emerita, neuroscientist) – Extraordinary machines

195. Adam Gopnik (essayist) – the rhinoceros of liberalism vs. the unicorns of everything else

194. Jared Diamond (Historian) – Look inward, Nation

193. Anaïs Mitchell (HADESTOWN creator, songwriter/singer) – sometimes the god speaks through you

192. Delphine Minoui (journalist) – Land of paradoxes: the inner and outer Iran

191. Simon Critchley (philosopher) – the philosophy of tragedy & the tragedy of philosophy

190. Terry Gilliam (filmmaker) - The impossible dream

189. Ross Kauffman (Oscar-winning filmmaker) – Tigers and the humans who love them

188. Frans de Waal (primatologist) – You're such a social animal

187. Aml Ameen (actor) - how the world teaches you who you are

186. Josh Clark (podcaster) - It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine