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History & Society
Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
Many view the development of fringe, alternative theories as a useless waste of time. But when they can be tested, it shows what reality is.
A tour of the literary cover-ups, extraterrestrials, and cryptids lurking in the bookish backwoods.
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 VENUS survey isn't about planets at all, but about finding multiply-lensed supernovae. The ambition? To save the expanding Universe.
AI may be rewriting “how” we work — but not “why” we work. And this has profound implications for leadership.
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.
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.
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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 […]
Emily Mendenhall traces the medical myths, gender bias, and neurological truths behind hysteria, one of history’s most damaging diagnoses.
Travel half the distance to your destination, and there's always another half to go. So how do you eventually arrive? That's Zeno's Paradox.
Astronomers have found starless gas clouds before, but Cloud 9 might be the most pristine one of all, with big lessons for cosmic history.
Scientists found a massive underwater wall off the coast of France that might help explain the origin of the legend of Ys.
Handled right, AI has potential to bring back middle-skill jobs lost to the rise of computers, economists argue. Or, like the mechanized mills of the past, it could toss whole sectors out of work.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Neuroscience isn’t dissolving philosophy’s hardest problems — it’s forcing us to rethink where they live.
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"Being connected to another person makes us feel safer and keeps our bodies at a kind of physiologic equilibrium that promotes health."
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“How can all the diversity and, sort of, seeming order that's out there in the world emerge from a process dependent upon chance?”
Well before plants and animals, there were fungi.