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Modern autocracies operate "not like a bloc but rather like an agglomeration of companies," says journalist and historian Anne Applebaum.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Black holes encode information on their surfaces, but evaporate away into Hawking radiation. Is that information preserved, and if so, how?
To maintain momentum and flow, the great novelist Ernest Hemingway didn’t burn himself out — but learned when to put his work down.
The Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order would be just one quarter the size of Vatican City.
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“When we face a problem, our natural tendency is to race ahead – but some friction is actually a good thing.”
Artificial intelligence is much more than image generation and smart-sounding chatbots; it's also a Nobel-worthy endeavor rooted in physics!
Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter.
Historian Timothy Snyder talks with Big Think about how true liberty requires both negative and positive freedoms.
Anne Chow, former CEO of AT&T Business, lays out a new approach to inclusive leadership that takes “thinking bigger” to the next level.
The co-founder of Wired magazine shares his insights on how a long-term mindset can shape a brighter, more innovative future.
National Geographic's first James Webb Space Telescope book shows us the cosmos like never before.
The first of these devices is already on the market — the AI-powered Ray-Bans from Meta.
The earliest Milky Way-like galaxy, REBELS-25, was spotted rotating about its axis. It's only 700 million years old: 5% of our present age.
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Kaelynn Partlow shares her story about life with autism, ADHD, and dyslexia, and how finding the right diagnosis helped her embrace her neurodivergent identity.
Unlikely Collaborators
Three of the greatest moral philosophers — Bentham, Kant and Aristotle — offer invaluable and practical lessons for leaders today.
Astro Mechanica’s “turboelectric” jet engines offer a way to transform both commercial flights and space launches.
Changing the narrative on false memories might be surprisingly simple.
Interferometry gave us a black hole's event horizon, but that was in the radio. What can we accomplish with a new optical interferometer?
Hackers are in an arms race with cyber defenders. Will AI tip the balance?