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JADES galaxies
While humanity has been skywatching since ancient times, much of our cosmic understanding has come about only recently. Very recently.
A man wearing glasses and a jacket looks at the camera, seated in front of a light background with a green rectangular frame and gray squiggle lines.
Bryan Washington, author of “Palaver,” reflects on how moving to Japan and learning a new language shaped his writing.
An older man sits on a chair in front of a white backdrop in a modern, brightly lit room with colorful pillows and minimalist decor.
16mins
"Being connected to another person makes us feel safer and keeps our bodies at a kind of physiologic equilibrium that promotes health."
A nebula in space glows with bright purple, pink, and blue hues, surrounded by stars and cosmic dust where new stars form in our expanding universe.
Our Universe doesn't just expand and cool, but the expansion itself is accelerating. Can stars form under such structure-erasing conditions?
An older man with a white beard sits on a chair against a white backdrop, with a large, colorful DNA double helix illustration in the background.
54mins
“How can all the diversity and, sort of, seeming order that's out there in the world emerge from a process dependent upon chance?”
Aerial view of a river delta with branching waterways, shaped by natural intelligence, flowing into the sea and surrounded by green and brown land.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Top-down view of assorted wild mushrooms arranged in a circle with beige and orange cutout shapes on a black background.
Well before plants and animals, there were fungi.