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Book cover of "Crush: Close Encounters with Gravity" by James Riordon, featuring a crushed red soda can with a green leaf.
From white holes to dark stars and multiverses, James Riordon explores the bizarre exhibits of general relativity's "cryptozoo."
A man lounges and yawns on a red chaise longue while a woman in a dress, caught in brilliant boredom, yawns at a table in a room with pink curtains and patterned carpet.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
hoag's object
Spirals, ellipticals, and irregulars are all more common than ring galaxies. At last, we know how these ultra-rare objects are made.
A man sits on a chair in front of a white backdrop in a library with brick walls, wooden floor, shelves of books, and large windows.
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Instead of treating belief as a private preference, philosopher Alex O’Connor examines how our moral positions shape institutions, obligations, and the ways we justify our choices. 
A person with an illustrated book as a head—pages open, filled with wavy black lines—appears to be brain reading as they stand against a plain light green background.
The technology might be much closer than you'd think.
Abstract collage with network nodes, a vintage gear, a textured gray circle, and green gears on a graph background, divided into four colored quadrants.
An introduction to "The Engine of Progress" from Jason Crawford, founder of the Roots of Progress Institute.