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The "Doctor Strange" director says mystery shifts your worldview — "not in a metaphorical sense, but in a deeply experiential one."
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The marketing guru outlines the current state of brand-building — and highlights four outstanding opportunities for the immediate future.
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There's an old saying that "what you see is what you get." When it comes to the Universe, however, there's often more to the full story.
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If you feel like you're missing out on something bigger, you might be feeling saṃvega.
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1hr 19mins
“We don't have enough knowledge to precisely calculate what is going to happen, and so we assign probabilities to it, which reflects our ignorance of the situation.”
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A thesaurus isn’t for finding fancy words; it’s a resource to help you keep your rhythm.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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18mins
“The fear of panic has killed more people than most disasters themselves.”
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The surface and atmosphere is colored by ferric oxides. Beneath a very thin layer, mere millimeters deep in places, it's not red anymore.
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In the tears and laughter of a single life, you find the grief and joy of humanity.
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"Nobody expects a computer simulation of a hurricane to generate real wind and real rain," writes neuroscientist Anil Seth.
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“The voice in your head is not you. You are listening to that voice. It’s a heckler, trying to make you feel bad.”
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Many, from neuroscientists to philosophers to anesthesiologists, have claimed to understand consciousness. Do physicists? Does anyone?
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You no longer need an army of followers to stand out as a writer — “one great piece is all it takes,” says Perell.
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English could settle into a state of "diglossia" where a gulf exists between the written form and its spoken varieties, but the two are bound into a single tongue.
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Harness the power of “respectful engagement” to make sure everyone in your team feels like they matter.
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With stars, gas, and dark matter, galaxies come in a great array of sizes. This new one, Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1, is the smallest by far.
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Curiosity is often considered a personality quirk. Neuroscience paints a different picture.
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The cofounder and CEO of red-hot billing platform Metronome unpacks his leadership journey.
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"We are all in orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy. How big is this collection of stars? Somewhere between 200 and 400 billion suns in the Milky Way galaxy, about 100,000 light years across."