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Big Think — the highbrow YouTube

January 15, 2008

Big Think is kind of interesting — YouTube with 30 extra IQ points. Lots of bite sized video morsels of intellectual content; from Steven Pinker on Human Nature to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on this and that. Seems like a good place to point an intellectually curious YouTuber.

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Big Think — the highbrow YouTube

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