BigThink

Smart people talk about serious questions 3

Check out this cool new site, BigThink. It's a collection of short video interviews with notable or famous people, asking them a series of common questions. Strangely addictive.

The environment section is fairly anemic thus far (the site just launched a few weeks ago), but you can watch Mitt Romney, Dennis Kucinich, John McCain, and Bill Richardson all answering the question, Is ethanol overhyped? (Hint: Cellulosic! Cellulosic!)

Also, I really like Gillian Caldwell, exec. director of Witness, on whether climate change is a human rights issue. [UPDATE: I'm told Caldwell is no longer with Witness, but is now heading up 1Sky. Cool.]

Inexplicably, BigThink doesn't allow you to embed the videos on your own site. Psst, fellas: It's 2008. Get with the program.

David Roberts is staff writer for Grist. You can follow his Twitter feed at twitter.com/drgrist.

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  1. Easterbunny Posted 5:34 am
    14 Jan 2008

    well that was a waste of timePretty useless really. More proof that the youtube phenomena dumbs everything down. Get some "intellectuals", invite them to make youtube-sized soundbites, and you get, well, you get shallow soundbites.
    Next.

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  2. Adi Posted 6:18 am
    14 Jan 2008

    setting the record straight...Gillian Caldwell is no longer working at Witness; she is now the Campaign Director for 1Sky, a new initiative mobilizing diverse grassroots support for policy solutions at the scale of the climate challenge before us: 80% emissions cuts by 2050, the creation of 5 million new jobs in green industries, and a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants.  (Full disclosure: I am the Field and Outreach Associate for 1Sky.)  I invite all Grist readers to check out our work and get involved at http://www.1sky.org as we build a unified climate movement together.

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  3. dishy Posted 1:17 pm
    21 Jan 2008

    www.bigthink.comActually, http://www.bigthink.com does allow their video files to be embedded, so yes, lets get with the program as you say.  That site is pretty cool and should only get better I think.

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