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Why aren’t more women attaining senior leadership positions across corporate America? In this lesson excerpt, Jody Greenstone Miller explains why the time commitment traditionally required to attain top level positions prevents many women (and some men) from bringing their talents to the workforce. The full clip, available on Big Think+, teaches you how to create new paths to leadership by rethinking time so that the faces and values at the top of your organization more accurately reflect the diversity of the available talent pool.

Is “nudge theory” Big Brother running our lives, or just the medicine we need? 

Former NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen comments on the consequences of climate change in the Arctic and why geopolitical tensions are growing in the region.

Businesses that make their employees feel young for their age get more out of their workforce.

A “speculative” theory no more; it’s had four of them confirmed. “Scientific ideas should be simple, explanatory, predictive. The inflationary multiverse as currently understood appears to have none of those […]

Public apprehension about the health effects of mercury FAR exceeds the actual danger. Why, and what are the health impacts of that fear!?

The first woman to head a major North American pro sports union has made several major splashes in her first seven months on the job while exuding confidence every step of the way.

With three spatial dimensions, the possibilities are tremendous. But only one answer fits what we see. “Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you […]

Hide this study from your parents. Recent research suggests that the connection between video games and enhancing cognitive abilities is “weak to nonexistent.”

Driving battery-powered cars could pollute the air more than cars powered by fossil fuels. 

Associate degrees in fields like healthcare, technology, and skilled labor have higher earning potential than some four-year college degrees.

A newly released series of anti-nuclear videos demonstrates just how blind to the evidence our underlying values can make us… and how that blindness can make it harder to solve the huge and complex problems facing modern society.

Could everything we’ve put together about science turn out to be wrong? “Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.” –Alan Greenspan We’re always on the lookout for the next […]

“If someone is to consider black and white for their project I guess I would say the heads up that I would offer is that they need to be prepared to fight for it and lobby for that… Connections are not in color or in black and white. They’re invisible but just as real.”

The “Kindness Diaries” author recounts an inspirational story of generosity that changed his life.

Xapo CEO Wences Casares calls Bitcoin “maybe the most important social experiment going on right now” that could one day replace the gold standard.

The founder of MIT’s Media Lab imagines a future in which information and knowledge can be delivered to the brain through the bloodstream.

“A skateboarder’s way of thought is so different that I feel if somebody had some sort of dilemma in their life you could ask a skateboarder for an outside opinion.You may get something that is absolutely ridiculous or you could get something that’s absolutely brilliant.” -From his recent Big Think interview

The first human colonies might not be on the surface of Mars, but amidst the clouds of Venus. “I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the […]

Journalist Eric Schlosser, an executive producer on the film Food Chains, discusses the exploitation of poor workers in the American food system.

Using technology to soften the effects of climate change may soon become a reality.

Taking a nap almost always beats a cup of coffee, according to sleep researchers, because a nap restores worn out synapse connections while coffee just pushes them to perform longer.

The German car maker hopes to roll out this new technology by 2020. You’ll never have to hand your keys to the valet again.

Paul Taylor is the executive vice-president of special projects at the Pew Research Center and author of the book The Next America. An expert in demographic, social and generational research, Taylor recently visited Big Think to discuss the millennial generation.

Life coach and author Tony Robbins had entered the world of personal finance with his latest book.

Big Think and the Kellogg School of Management have launched a new executive training program, Ethics in Action. This unique, expert-driven, program is designed to help corporations address the ethical […]

The hope that humans can use wisdom and technology to prevent a bleak future for life on Earth is overly optimistic. It falsely presumes that we can use wisdom to overcome instincts.

Knowing what is acceptable to say creates predictability, and predictability frees group members from worry of possibly offending those around them.

If you’ve got time off this holiday season, don’t allow the pull of your devices ruin your rest and relaxation. Here’s how to unplug completely.

Extroverts received the harshest evaluations from introverts, who consistently undervalued their outspoken coworkers’ abilities and contributions.