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We understand many things about our Universe, and our home within it, extremely well. The number of stars in the Milky Way isn't among them.
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Common knowledge says the maximum size of a PDF is as big as 40% of Germany — but that’s a gross underestimate.
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Honing your skills as a strategic thinker does more than solve problems as they appear; it can be a fast track to the top.
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Bestselling author Seth Godin urges us to rethink our definition of longevity — and to step back and measure what matters.
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Networking — not zombie-crunching your job applications — gives you a better chance of getting sourced or referred for a role.
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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.
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How the cult hit sci-fi show imagines a “techno-realist” future.
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The first in a series of short stories by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author that inspired the cult hit "Pantheon."
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Those who know who they are — and what they truly value — refuse to compromise their authentic direction to placate others.
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Adam Bryant makes a key observation about rising to the challenges of leadership — and your change-resistant former self won’t like it.
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Large, massive, rotating galaxies like the Milky Way are common today. So how could one form a mere ~2 billion years after the Big Bang?
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?
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Our brains cling to the bad. This method could help balance the scales.
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Science writer Matt Ridley joins us to discuss how “Darwin’s strangest idea” makes us all a bit feather-brained (in a good way).
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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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For centuries, even after we knew the Sun was a star like any other, we still didn't know what it was made of. Cecilia Payne changed that.
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The latest from Peter Leyden's "The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050", an essay series published by Freethink.
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DESI, by mapping galaxies, has claimed they see evidence for dark energy evolving by getting weaker. But that's only one interpretation.