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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
It's not about particle-antiparticle pairs falling into or escaping from a black hole. A deeper explanation alters our view of reality.
The case for why AI systems are not merely "stochastic parrots."
The deep study of friction and surfaces — so crucial to industrial manufacture — emerged from a mid-century engineering conference.
The VENUS survey isn't about planets at all, but about finding multiply-lensed supernovae. The ambition? To save the expanding Universe.
The Havana Syndrome mystery took a strange turn following a CNN report that outlined how the Pentagon had purchased a device through an undercover operation — one that some investigators believe could help explain the illnesses.
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We tend to trust our intuitions about consciousness because they feel immediate and personal, but feeling convinced is not the same as being right. Annaka Harris explores what happens when […]
AI may be rewriting “how” we work — but not “why” we work. And this has profound implications for leadership.
Tech leaders may have backed Trump in 2024, but the majority of the community still leans left — and has a big opportunity ahead.
Author Zack Kass argues that AI will not end work — it will expand it, pushing us toward new ways of creating, connecting, and adding value.
US science is worth fighting for, but so are the science projects and scientists denied opportunities. Here are 4 paths all worth exploring.
AI can now generate entire worlds from text prompts. What does this mean for how we think, create, and connect?
Our algorithmic age encourages us to over-index on probabilities — but we should instead exercise our “storythinking brain” and focus on possibilities.
Back in 1604, Johannes Kepler discovered the Milky Way's last naked-eye supernova. Here's how NASA's Chandra sees it over the 21st century.
The seeds of cosmic structure that were planted back during the Big Bang grew into the cosmic web we see today. What is it telling us?
Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger spoke with Big Think about how "the colors of life" could leave detectable traces on distant planets.
Health policy expert Ezekiel Emanuel says you don’t have to be obsessed to live a healthy life. Wellness can, and should, be something you enjoy.
When objects are gravitationally bound, they cannot escape from one another's influence. How does that work within the expanding Universe?
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Stoicism has been flattened into slogans about toughness, detachment, and emotional silence, a version that’s easy to sell, but mostly wrong. Massimo Pigliucci returns Stoicism to its original purpose: a […]
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"I continue to believe that in the long run, boys, young men will believe their eyes more than their ears."