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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
Historians Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst reexamine the pivotal conflict from a grassroots perspective.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
One does not simply make a meme go viral.
Duke sociologist Dr. Christopher Bail on the tech’s potential to foster empathy in an age of division.
John Templeton Foundation
Author and geopolitical strategist Paulo Cardoso do Amaral urges us to ask: Will we shape AI with wisdom, or will AI reshape us with strategy?
The conversation you're having with an LLM about groundbreaking new ideas in theoretical physics is completely meritless. Here's why.
Somewhere, at some point in the history of our Universe, life arose. We're evidence of that here on Earth, but many big puzzles remain.
The host of the Money with Katie Show has some priceless advice for women on how to approach pay-rise negotiations.
Even just by examining the Moon with the unaided eye, we can learn an incredible amount about the Moon, Earth, and more.
The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here's how that's possible.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
17mins
"The sense that we are a solid entity, an unchanging entity that exists someplace in our body and takes ownership of our body, and even ownership of our brain rather than being identical to our brain, that is where the illusion lies."
Realizing that matter and energy are quantized is important, but quantum particles aren't the full story; quantum fields are needed, too.
It makes no sense to talk about a “religious life” and a “public life” — there is just life.
7mins
“The simplest, most powerful way to reinforce work, not jobs, is to ask people to do something different.”
With the right material at the right temperature and a magnetic track, physics really does allow perpetual motion without energy loss.
A conversation with the legendary VC on his latest book, his work at Techstars, and why “give first” is more than a motto — it’s a mindset.
Whether you run the clock forward or backward, most of us expect the laws of physics to be the same. A 2012 experiment showed otherwise.
The JFK Memorial at Runnymede provides a link between America's and Britain's founding documents.
Once you cross a black hole's event horizon, there's no going back. But inside, could creating a singularity give birth to a new Universe?