The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here's how that's possible.

"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."

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

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.

“The simplest, most powerful way to reinforce work, not jobs, is to ask people to do something different.”

Stuck on a hamster wheel of mindless social media scrolling? Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff explains how to consciously redirect your reward system.