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Particles are everywhere, including particles from space that stream through the human body. Here's how they prove Einstein's relativity.
Handled right, AI has potential to bring back middle-skill jobs lost to the rise of computers, economists argue. Or, like the mechanized mills of the past, it could toss whole sectors out of work.
If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it's a JWST image or any other observatory.
Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is simply that it, and everything in it, exists. But what's the reason why?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.
While ice itself is slick, slippery, and difficult to navigate across under most circumstances, skaters easily glide across the ice.
Practical lessons from a year of building leadership frameworks, programs, and partnerships.
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"The big question then is why are most people resilient and why are some people not resilient?"
In an age of polycrisis, argues leadership coach Lisa Bennett, we should spend less time trying to save the world — and focus on savoring it instead.
The highest-energy particles could be a sign of new, unexpected physics. But the simplest, most mundane explanation is particularly iron-ic.
Neuroscience isn’t dissolving philosophy’s hardest problems — it’s forcing us to rethink where they live.
British entrepreneur Simon Squibb made his fortune and retired — then amassed legions of followers by giving away sharp business advice for free.
While humanity has been skywatching since ancient times, much of our cosmic understanding has come about only recently. Very recently.
Bryan Washington, author of “Palaver,” reflects on how moving to Japan and learning a new language shaped his writing.
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"Being connected to another person makes us feel safer and keeps our bodies at a kind of physiologic equilibrium that promotes health."
Our Universe doesn't just expand and cool, but the expansion itself is accelerating. Can stars form under such structure-erasing conditions?
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“How can all the diversity and, sort of, seeming order that's out there in the world emerge from a process dependent upon chance?”