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Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
How to look cool in post-war France in black and white photos.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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"If you're interested in human performance, what you want is something that's reliable and repeatable, and thus you want neurobiology because neurobiology gives you mechanism."
Trailblazing isn’t limited to the executive suite: Cultures of disruption happen when people at every level step up to lead change.
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How can the brain — a piece of matter — love? Physics and chemistry explain the material world, but they can’t explain why it feels like something to be alive. This is the mystery of consciousness, according to these experts.
Unlikely Collaborators
A conversation with Dr. Susan Schneider on the AI risks we’re not talking about and why the fixation on AGI is misplaced.
In this excerpt from "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…," Steven Pinker examines how crying may have evolved as part of a suite of emotional expressions aimed at strengthening social bonds.
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Free speech may be messy, but censorship is deadly. Founder of The Future of Free Speech Jacob Mchangama explains.
Neuroscientist Rachel Barr shares her favorite books on the brain and how they shaped her approach to the field.
We don't learn from history because we can't learn from history.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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A physician, a psychologist, and a mindfulness teacher explain what stress does to your body and mind, and how to use it to get smarter and stronger.
Unlikely Collaborators
Aristotle taught that “knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom” — all leaders and teams should take note.
The red planet, Mars, may once have been teeming with life, just as Earth is today. Finding "organics" on Mars, however, doesn't mean life.
In revolutionary Russia, a group of forward-thinking philosophers offered an alternative to both futurism and communism.
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“There's research showing that people who are curious, who ask questions, are not just happier, they're not just more successful, they also live longer.”
In “On Liberalism," Cass Sunstein argues that liberalism can only endure if we reclaim its core commitments and revive its spirit of freedom and hope for the future.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Real understanding, argues Jeff DeGraff, doesn’t come from outputs — it comes from practice.