124. Juli Berwald (writer) – Our Jellyfish Overlords
Jason Gots: What happens in your brain when I say the word “Jellyfish”? If you’re not a marine biologist, and if going to the beach almost anywhere in the world is a part of your life, the word prob...
11 Nov 201750min
123. (Henry) Rollins, Redux: Monogamy+Genius+Violence
Jason Gots: Let’s cast our minds back to June 2015, before Donald Trump as president seemed even a remote possibility. We had just launched Think Again, and for our second episode (and not much more t...
4 Nov 201745min
122. David Eagleman (neuroscientist) – Your Creative Brain
Jason Gots: It’s 150,000 years ago. You’re a Homo sapiens, hanging out in a really cozy clearing protected from behind by a cliff wall. It’s a great spot. Temperate, isolated, pretty safe. Lots of goo...
28 Okt 201746min
121. Van Jones (social entrepreneur) – Blind Spots & Sore Spots
Jason Gots: I want to tell you a story. It’s November 5, 2016, a few days before Election Day. I’m staring at Facebook, promising myself I’m going to delete the app once and for all from my phone, tod...
21 Okt 201747min
120. Nancy Koehn (Historian) – Holdin' on for a Hero
What do Rachel Carson, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ernest Shackleton, and Abraham Lincoln have in common, aside from being historical figures you’ve probably heard of? That’s the question...
14 Okt 201749min
119. Aaron Mahnke (of 'Lore') – The Hunger for Mystery
For thousands of years, all over the world, tales of monsters and the undead have populated the "whitespace" beyond the borders of our understanding. As the enormous popularity of the podcast 'Lore" d...
7 Okt 201751min
118. Stephen Greenblatt (humanities scholar) – Irresistible Fictions
An ancient, one-and-a-half-page-story that just won't let us go. Humanities scholar Stephen Greenblatt and host Jason Gots discuss how Adam and Eve have shaped and been shaped by Western art, culture,...
30 Sep 201758min
117. Kurt Andersen (writer) – The Sleep of Reason
Orthodox kookiness: the true American exceptionalism? Writer Kurt Andersen and host Jason Gots discuss America's 500 year old tendency toward passionate belief in the preposterous in this, Big Think's...
23 Sep 201756min
