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Max Miller

Contributing Writer, Big Think

Max Miller is Big Think's Assistant Managing Editor, in charge of setting daily content of the website and interviewing the illustrious experts that come through Big Think's studio. During his time at Big Think, he has had the pleasure to interview many of the world's thought leaders, including Malcolm Gladwell, Edward Norton, Garry Kasparov, Salman Rushdie, and Julian Schnabel.

Before becoming a Big Thinker, Max lived in Hanoi for a year, where stuffed himself on bun cha and served as the Associate Executive Editor of Vietnam Financial Review, the only independent English-language financial magazine in Vietnam.

Max graduated from Princeton University, where he received an A.B. in English.


Entrepreneurship, like theater, requires you to imagine something that doesn’t exist. Hollywood star Jeffrey Wright explains how his training on the stage prepared him to found a mineral company and non-profit in Sierra Leone.
The amygdala, an almond-shaped structure in the limbic system, is where the the brain processes and reacts to frightening stimuli. Because of its mechanism, our emotional responses to situations that feel dangerous are often unconscious.
To what lengths would you go to survive in the face of death? Could you amputate your own arm to free it from beneath a boulder? Could you survive 10 weeks on frogs and leeches?  Over the next four days, Big Think interviews men who survived the harshest conditions.
What makes some brains smarter than others? Are intelligent people better at storing and retrieving memories? Or perhaps their neurons have more connections allowing them to creatively combine dissimilar ideas?
With brain scans, scientists have learned much about what happens in our heads during sleep, but they still can’t answer the simple question: why do we sleep?
Using lasers to manipulate the weather sounds like science fiction, but researchers at the University of Geneva have done just that. In May, Dr. Jerome Kasparian unveiled the results of […]