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Algorithms dictate a lot more than your social media feeds. Here’s how to win back your agency.
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For extraordinary long-term success in business we can look to insights from British Olympic cycling, Roger Federer and neuroeconomics.
Comparison of weight on Earth and Mars for a 1 kg mass. On Earth: gravity = 9.81 m/s², weight = 9.81 N. On Mars: gravity = 3.72 m/s², weight = 3.72 N; demonstrating that weight and mass are not the same across different planets due to varying gravitational forces.
Here on Earth, we commonly use terms like weight (in pounds) and mass (in kilograms) as though they're interchangeable. They're not.
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In "Life As No One Knows It," Sara Imari Walker explains why the key distinction between life and other kinds of "things" is how life uses information.
A man sits at a control panel with knobs and buttons, wearing a headset, looking at a screen displaying abstract, distorted wavy patterns—the antidote for leaders in navigating complex data.
We can address the misalignment between the current leadership reality and traditional leadership practices with a simple formula.
So far, Earth is the only planet that we're certain possesses active life processes. Here's what we shouldn't assume about life elsewhere.
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Dennis “Thresh” Fong talks to us about battling Elon Musk in Quake in the ‘90s, his undefeated record as a pro gamer, and using AI to detoxify gaming.
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Some news is slow, some news is fast — and there are two simple techniques to help you filter both.
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Famed activist Bayard Rustin constantly faced the dilemma of coordinating collective pursuits among diverse groups of people.
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If philosophers really enjoy one thing, it’s a good debate — but not an argument.
7mins
Have we evolved to understand multiple rejections on Bumble, or survive more than one ghosting from Tinder? Christine Emba explores the sociology of modern dating and how to make them more ethical.
cosmic inflation
The Universe isn't just expansion, but the expansion itself is accelerating. So why can't we feel it in any measurable way?
Book cover of "Inheritance" by Harvey Whitehouse. The white cover features a vertical tear revealing a stack of people on one side and a green landscape on the other. Subtext reads "The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World.
Religion is a product of, and not a source of, our evolutionary moral dispositions.
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It's high time owners learned to speak their dog's language.
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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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No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?
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In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.
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"What modern science has taught us is that life is not a property of matter."
first contact
Life arose on Earth early on, eventually giving rise to us: intelligent and technologically advanced. "First contact" still remains elusive.