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A look at how criminals are using unrestricted chatbots and how cyber defenders are fighting back.
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1hr
“Let me walk you through the biggest traps that you should be aware of that are a danger to your financial wellbeing.”
big bang
For 13.8 billion years, the Universe has been expanding. But that couldn't have been the case for an eternity, and science has proven it.
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It's no wonder great writers swear by messy first drafts.
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Natural navigator Tristan Gooley joins us to discuss the philosophy of reading nature’s hidden clues — and how relearning this ancient skill can help us see the world, and ourselves, with greater awareness.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
dark matter
Dark matter has never been directly detected, but the astronomical evidence for its existence is overwhelming. Here's what to know.
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In this excerpt from "Playful," Cas Holman surveys the research that brought the neuroscience of play into the mainstream.
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Investment in quantum is growing. Anastasia Marchenkova wants to make sure funders still ask the tough questions.
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Philosophy asks if free will is real. Neuroscience reveals why the answer is more complicated than we expected.
Unlikely Collaborators
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We've long known we can't go back to infinite temperatures and densities. But the hottest part of the hot Big Bang remains a cosmic mystery.
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In this excerpt from "One Hand Clapping," Nikolay Kukushkin makes the case that neurons reveal how memory, meaning, and even consciousness emerge from the same biological roots in humans, sea slugs, and beyond.
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Richard Fain — Chairman and former CEO of Royal Caribbean Group — explains how a tongue-twister helped boost his company’s fortunes.
star vs planet vs brown dwarf
Red dwarfs are the Universe's most common star type. Their flaring now makes potentially Earth-like worlds uninhabitable, but just you wait.
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It's time to write the human genome, argues microbiologist Andrew Hessel.
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When making any tough decision, the key is not to be overly exploratory or exploitative.
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Marine Tanguy — author and founder/CEO of MTArt Agency — argues that viewing and creating art has profound benefits.
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From Hitler to Hamas, Western powers have repeatedly dismissed open threats as bluffs — with catastrophic results.
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"We're living in an extraordinary moment in history. We are at a moment here in 2025 where we have world historic game-changing technologies now starting to scale."