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Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
The latest season of the "Revolutions" podcast blends history with science fiction to tell the story of the Red Planet's rise.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists must have a cause, and the "first" cause must be God. Is that valid?
What can drugs teach us about consciousness?
Americans have gone through three historic junctures like what we're witnessing today — and they happen on an uncanny 80-year cycle.
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"We're at a very critical point in human history where things are about to change dramatically. One of the beauties of these AI tools is you now can just be anything that you dreamt of being."
Bestselling author Seth Godin urges us to rethink our definition of longevity — and to step back and measure what matters.
The Multiverse isn't just a staple of science fiction; there's real-life science behind it, too. Here are 10 facts to expand your mind.
How the cult hit sci-fi show imagines a “techno-realist” future.
The first in a series of short stories by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author that inspired the cult hit "Pantheon."
Adam Bryant makes a key observation about rising to the challenges of leadership — and your change-resistant former self won’t like it.
Harmony and moderation make for a happier life.
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"Many astronomers are really driven by the search for Earth twins because I think deep down the natural endpoint of this whole goal of looking for planets is to answer the question, are we alone?"
Over a century after we first unlocked the secrets of the quantum universe, people find it more puzzling than ever. Can we make sense of it?
Science writer Matt Ridley joins us to discuss how “Darwin’s strangest idea” makes us all a bit feather-brained (in a good way).
How much can you know about someone from a single belief?
The latest from Peter Leyden's "The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050", an essay series published by Freethink.
DESI, by mapping galaxies, has claimed they see evidence for dark energy evolving by getting weaker. But that's only one interpretation.
“It’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.”
OpenAI has become a household name in artificial intelligence — but back in 2018 things looked very rocky. Here’s what happened.