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Religion is a product of, and not a source of, our evolutionary moral dispositions.
It's high time owners learned to speak their dog's language.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?
In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.
"What modern science has taught us is that life is not a property of matter."
Life arose on Earth early on, eventually giving rise to us: intelligent and technologically advanced. "First contact" still remains elusive.
New research from Big Think+ shows that leaders crave more feedback on their leadership and management skills.
Evidence shows that “centaurs” — human–AI teaming — produce better performance than either people or software can achieve alone.
How “Catastrophe and Social Change” (1920) became the first systematic analysis of human behavior in a disaster.
If you think of the Big Bang as an explosion, we can trace it back to a single point-of-origin. But what if it happened everywhere at once?
DUNE is designed to detect the Universe's most antisocial particle: the neutrino.
Jeremy Johnson — co-founder of the talent network Andela — reflects on leadership in the age of remote work and AI.
The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, going back to the hot Big Bang. But was that truly the beginning, and is that truly its age?
We need more data centers for AI. Developers are getting creative about where to build them.
There is one obstacle that reliably blocks innovative ideas: how we fund science.
Is it ever possible for God to violate the laws of nature?
Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
You could call this rectangle covering parts of Iran, Iraq, and the Arabian Peninsula the “Oven Window.”
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.