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Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
In this excerpt from "Strange Stability," Benjamin Wilson explores how the concept of "deterrence" went from explaining criminal behavior to becoming a nuclear strategy.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
What a 1950s experiment reveals about conformity in the age of the internet.
Although American Thanksgiving only comes once a year, the scientific rules that make our Universe possible are always worth appreciating.
Be weird and esoteric because humans are weird and esoteric.
In this excerpt from "The Great Math War," Jason Socrates Bardi explores how Georg Cantor revolutionized mathematics and reshaped how our finite minds conceived of the infinite.
Every observation out into deep space is also a look back in time.
Kuang discusses the rituals, routines, and words of advice that have helped her write six best-selling novels in one decade.
From white holes to dark stars and multiverses, James Riordon explores the bizarre exhibits of general relativity's "cryptozoo."
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The technology might be much closer than you'd think.
Before we can build the future, we have to imagine it.
These expert-recommended books reveal how big ideas can shape — and sometimes redefine — human progress.
To build a better world, we first have to understand how change actually happens.
From treating specific diseases to targeting aging itself, Progress Conference 2025 explored the many routes to extending life.
Barriers to energy abundance — and how to overcome them — were front and center at Progress Conference 2025.
The case that a bipartisan movement structured around progress and reform may be reaching critical mass.
Leaders in China hope that AI and robotics can finally resolve the flaws of a centralized planned economy. But US technoculture has an edge.
In this excerpt from The Breath of the Gods, Simon Winchester explores how the Sumerians first named the wind and shaped our early understanding of the natural world.
Weird-looking galaxies, with tentacle-like tails or prominent dual streams, appear like jellyfish or bunny ears. But that’s just the start.