Big Think

About Big Think

Big Think is the leading source of expert-driven, actionable, educational content -- with thousands of videos, featuring experts ranging from Bill Clinton to Bill Nye, we help you get smarter, faster. Get actionable lessons from the world’s greatest thinkers & doers. Our experts are either disrupting or leading their respective fields. We aim to help you explore the big ideas and core skills that define knowledge in the 21st century, so you can apply them to the questions and challenges in your own life.

Publisher

bigthink

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Apr 2025

Latest episode

16 Nov 2025

Latest episodes

1 of 442 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   16 Nov 2025

   3 tools for predicting 2122 | Peter Schwartz

   Futurist Peter Schwartz outlines three methods for forecasting future events, emphasizing the importance of envisioning multiple scenarios to prepare for an uncertain world; this is an interview.

2. 

   15 Nov 2025

   An inclusion expert explains why women of color are held back | Ruchika T. Malhotra

   Ruchika T. Malhotra, inclusion expert, shares her BRIDGE framework, six interpersonal habits, to improve inclusivity for women of color in the workplace, in this interview.

3. 

   15 Nov 2025

   A guide to surviving humanity’s tipping point | Ari Wallach

   Futurist Ari Wallach discusses escaping short-term thinking through transgenerational empathy, urging listeners to consider their legacy and impact on future generations in this interview.

Inside a recent episode

We doubled human lifespans in the last 200 years. Can we do it again? | Andrew Steele

Published 5 Nov 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Are we going to have overpopulation? Because we're going to have all of these cancer survivors clogging up the planet and using resources and destroying the environment? And yet, when you start talking about longevity, suddenly all of these questions come out of the woodwork. It's as though we place it in a completely separate moral, ethical category to any other kind of medicine. And what I believe is that this longevity science is just an extension of modern medicine. At the moment, aging is the leading cause of death globally. Over 100 ,000 people die every single day of cancer, of dementia, of the increased risk of infectious disease that comes along with growing older. […]

Who has been a guest on Big Think

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Peter Schwartz
• Ruchika T Malhotra
• Ari Wallach
• Anna Butrico
• Matthew Ball

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

909,924,519

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

1.8 / 5

38 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

91

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

81

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

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