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Since 2008, Big Think has been gathering and publishing smart ideas in the form of short video

interviews with some of the world's most interesting thinkers and doers.

On the Think Again podcast, my producers surprise our guests and me with totally unexpected clips

from these archives. The conversation could go anywhere. This week, I'm joined by my sometime co-host,

Eric Sanders, and by none other than physicist Brian Green. How you doing, Brian?

I'm doing well. Thank you. So that voice belongs to Brian, a renowned physicist, known for his work

on string theory and for popular books and TV series such as The Elegant Universe that explain

complex physics concepts to somewhat ignorant people like us who know nothing about math or science.

Sorry, Jason.

Brian's also the director of the unbelievable world science festival, which I go to every year,

right here in New York City.

And we would advertise the fact that it's happening next week, except that by the time

you're hearing this podcast, it won't be next week.

Yeah.

But you should definitely go next summer. Yes, exactly. So here's how this works, Brian. Each week, Big Things Producers unearth a gem from our interview archives. We have no idea who the expert is or on what subject they will be speaking. We listen and then we respond extemporaneously. We don't take notes or anything.

Sounds like fun.

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