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| Pablo Escobar’s hippos: Why drug lords shouldn’t play God | Big Think Top 10 2018 #10 | Lucy Cooke | 9:39 | 15,084 | |
| How overparenting backfired on Americans | Jonathan Haidt | Most Talked About 2018 | 4:24 | 22,539 | |
| Why “I’m not racist” is only half the story | Robin DiAngelo | Most Controversial 2018 | 6:32 | 17,843 | |
| If you lost friends in the 2016 election, watch this | Eboo Patel | 2:40 | 15,728 | |
| Dinosaurs are alive! Here’s how we know, and why it matters | Richard Prum | 5:39 | 19,466 | |
| Consciousness, panpsychism, and AGI: What is it like to be a hat? | Ben Goertzel | 5:48 | 8,554 | |
| How news feed algorithms supercharge confirmation bias | Eli Pariser | 4:59 | 17,419 | |
| What's worse than drug addiction? The cruelty of drug treatments. | Maia Szalavitz | 4:48 | 13,834 | |
| How one black man convinced 200 KKK members to quit the Klan... by listening | Sarah Ruger | 4:37 | 29,902 | |
| The opioid crisis is profitable. Blockchain tech can end that. | Brian Behlendorf | 5:23 | 12,905 | |
| The truth about panda sex | Lucy Cooke | 10:16 | 18,667 | |
| Why the U.S. is an anomaly among democracies | Eboo Patel | 4:29 | 30,586 | |
| Why practicing empathy matters, and how VR can help | Danfung Dennis | 3:14 | 7,026 | |
| How the Moon’s ice craters will power a human colony | Michelle Thaller | 3:20 | 10,380 | |
| Drug prevention advice for parents | Maia Szalavitz | 4:51 | 11,322 | |
| Why you should tolerate intolerable ideas | Nadine Strossen | 3:38 | 31,746 | |
| Jordan Peterson’s guide to leadership | 6:55 | 73,455 | |
| Why early retirement comes with one big clause | Vicki Robin | 6:70 | 27,378 | |
| How hands-on learning fires up your brain | Leland Melvin | 3:25 | 13,701 | |
| The Big Bang wasn’t an explosion. Visualize it like this. | Michelle Thaller | 4:10 | 132,992 | |
| There are two kinds of identity politics. One is good. The other, very bad. | Jonathan Haidt | 4:80 | 53,581 | |
| Why social design is a north star for entrepreneurs | Cheryl Heller | 5:53 | 9,876 | |
| Dear elites: Did you learn your lesson? | Anand Giridharadas | 3:00 | 19,726 | |
| How the marketplace of ideas went rogue | Eli Pariser | 5:44 | 14,488 | |
| When America polices the world, everybody loses | Jeffrey Sachs | 5:36 | 20,582 | |
| Why spiritualizing the cosmos is a disservice to science and religion | Michelle Thaller | 4:49 | 16,857 | |
| How overparenting backfired on Americans | Jonathan Haidt | 4:25 | 586,415 | |
| How super rich companies harm us all — and try to cover it up | Anand Giridharadas | 4:19 | 21,246 | |
| How 'creativity sprints' can get your creative brain going | Ryder Carroll | 3:10 | 13,147 | |
| How I overcame disability to become a NASA astronaut | Leland Melvin | 4:38 | 8,191 | |
| I worked in the prison system for 5 years. Here’s what it does to a person. | Bishop Omar Jahwar | 4:11 | 28,834 | |
| Does NASA have any climate change skeptics? | Michelle Thaller | 2:46 | 47,864 | |
| Fairness is a universal value. So why all this inequity? | Dr. Monica Sharma | 4:41 | 10,260 | |
| How to overcome social anxiety and bring more confidence to your conversations | Andrew Horn | 5:10 | 38,523 | |
| James Patterson on writing: Plotting, research, and first drafts | 3:15 | 13,732 | |
| Why American history lives between the cracks | Elizabeth Alexander | 6:19 | 6,650 | |
| Bullet journaling 101: Mindfulness meets productivity | Ryder Carroll | 4:53 | 33,816 | |
| Ideology drives us apart. Neuroscience can bring us back together. | Sarah Ruger | 4:31 | 31,981 | |
| How to make a black hole | NASA's Michelle Thaller | 5:23 | 33,638 | |
| Preserving truth: How to confront and correct fake news | Craigslist founder Craig Newmark | 4:35 | 55,495 | |
| The connection paradox: Why are workplaces more isolating than ever? | Dan Schawbel | 3:50 | 13,999 | |
| The global plan to fight AMR superbugs | Jill Inverso | 6:80 | 36,801 | |
| What humanity will gain by going to Mars | Leland Melvin | 4:44 | 25,507 | |
| Why free speech is sacred—even when it’s dangerous | Nadine Strossen | 10:11 | 12,274 | |
| This is how we end hyper-partisan politics | Alice Dreger | 4:50 | 19,861 | |
| A guide to DIY activism, from the creator of the pussyhat | Krista Suh | 4:90 | 7,770 | |
| When will we find alien life? Place your bets! | Michelle Thaller | 3:43 | 13,941 | |
| Why the language of fear won’t help us stop climate change | Cheryl Heller | 4:16 | 9,570 | |
| The Prison Cell Meditation by Damien Echols | 8:10 | 16,786 | |
| Have Americans become too fragile for their own good? | Jonathan Haidt | 8:25 | 37,344 | |
| Are you courageous enough to collaborate with your enemies? | Bishop Omar Jahwar | 7:20 | 11,780 | |
| What it takes to get vaccines from the lab to the field | Susan Silberman | 5:27 | 52,378 | |
| How extreme beauty might defy survival of the fittest | 5:60 | 13,280 | |
| How ‘The Goblin’ may unravel the mystery of Planet Nine | Michelle Thaller | 4:38 | 31,731 | |
| Innocent on death row: How I survived 18 years | Damien Echols | 12:70 | 10,936 | |
| How trying to solve death makes life, here and now, worse | Michael Shermer | 5:46 | 16,323 | |
| Dead penguin sex: The reason you shouldn’t anthropomorphize animals | Lucy Cooke | 6:59 | 22,674 | |
| 3 great untruths to stop telling kids—and ourselves | Jonathan Haidt | 5:45 | 112,189 | |
| How to find fulfillment: Lessons from ‘dark horse’ success | 6:26 | 16,315 | |
| Why whistleblowing is the loneliest and most courageous act in the world | Alice Dreger | 7:34 | 10,681 | |
| Being nice is not going to end racism | Robin DiAngelo | 9:80 | 18,400 | |
| Education doesn’t happen on paper. It happens between people. | Elizabeth Alexander | 2:41 | 39,674 | |
| Is technology corrupting humanity? History says no. | Elad Gil | 4:57 | 10,836 | |
| The evolution of homosexuality: A new theory | Richard Prum | 3:34 | 33,768 | |
| Why the school you went to is no match for learning agility | Kelly Palmer | 3:55 | 15,988 | |
| Why thinking on paper is a fast way to focus | Ryder Carroll | 5:26 | 45,828 | |
| Being busy all the time is a habit you made. You can unmake it. | Dan Pontefract | 5:30 | 26,273 | |
| The tragedy of this American moment: Populism, elites, and the 2020 election | Anand Giridharadas | 7:59 | 30,500 | |
| The huge social impact of learning to love books | James Patterson | 8:16 | 11,623 | |
| Money worries: Why fear dominates your finances | Vicki Robin | 3:39 | 16,191 | |
| The cult of disruptive innovation: Where America went wrong | Jill Lepore | 6:12 | 18,215 | |
| Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on feminism, abortion, and dehumanization | 4:46 | 23,794 | |
| Populist psychology: How class division empowers autocratic leaders | Michele Gelfand | 4:46 | 15,051 | |
| The teenage brain: Why some years are (a lot) crazier than others | Robert Sapolsky | 4:50 | 23,040 | |
| Google 2.0: Why MIT scientists are building a new search engine | Danny Hillis | 13:00 | 100,179 | |
| How to build an authoritarian regime — and how to stop one | Timothy Snyder | 10:20 | 33,510 | |
| How to minimize stress, astronaut style | Chris Hadfield | 3:10 | 35,574 | |
| This puppy: Fluffy time-waster or productivity hack? | Ingrid Fetell Lee | 2:34 | 13,895 | |
| Corporate responsibility? Don’t make me laugh. | Anand Giridharadas | 6:25 | 27,488 | |
| How to be a better leader: Offer guidance, not instruction | Robert Langer | 3:10 | 15,446 | |
| Capitalism 2.0: How natural laws can create a more equal economy | John Fullerton | 8:23 | 25,260 | |
| Perpetual flight: The incredible technology behind non-stop drones | Fatema Hamdani | 8:18 | 16,600 | |
| Why only individual thinking can reunite America | Tim Snyder | 4:15 | 14,147 | |
| Why “I’m not racist” is only half the story | Robin DiAngelo | 6:34 | 42,158 | |
| Emotional intelligence at work: Why IQ isn’t everything | 4:14 | 30,202 | |
| Dear Jeff Bezos: What are you going to do with all that money? | Jeffrey Sachs | 6:50 | 85,579 | |
| 5 traits that boost your connectional intelligence | Erica Dhawan | 6:31 | 21,606 | |
| How Pfizer is supporting SDG #3: Good Health and Well-being | 3:50 | 123,941 | |
| Career advice from the "Edison of medicine" | MIT's Robert Langer | 4:56 | 8,577 | |
| Safe spaces: Where should the line of censorship be drawn? | 3:10 | 11,736 | |
| How inequality destroys the future by focusing on the past | Timothy Snyder | 4:60 | 16,009 | |
| How the United Nations is leading the world’s next moonshot | Jeffrey Sachs | 7:12 | 10,156 | |
| The extraordinary effect of mindfulness on depression and anxiety | Daniel Goleman | 3:40 | 50,366 | |
| Big companies can be a force for good—if they ask the right questions | Lorna Davis | 6:49 | 6,075 | |
| Why meritocracy is America’s most destructive myth | DeRay Mckesson | 6:12 | 18,779 | |
| How diplomacy saves American lives | Ronan Farrow | 4:53 | 7,484 | |
| Data makes you smart, but it doesn't make you wise | Timothy Snyder | 4:58 | 21,310 | |
| An astronaut’s guide to risk taking | Chris Hadfield | 3:49 | 26,121 | |
| Minimalism is killing us: Re-awaken your senses, bring back joy | Ingrid Fetell Lee | 7:90 | 36,839 | |
| Social anxiety: How to rewire your confidence and be a better communicator | Andrew Horn | 6:13 | 47,036 | |
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