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Adaptive Capacity
Your real competitive edge isn’t how smart you are — it’s how quickly you can reinvent yourself when the rules change.
Tara Narula shares how journalist Richard Cohen challenged conventional ideas about illness, identity, and strength while living with MS.
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"The big question then is why are most people resilient and why are some people not resilient?"
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“How can all the diversity and, sort of, seeming order that's out there in the world emerge from a process dependent upon chance?”
In most organizations, contradictions are treated as problems to be fixed. But what if they’re actually the point?
A meditation on quantum physics, creative endurance, and the unseen forces that shape what lasts.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
A fresh view of intelligence — spanning living systems from bacteria to human civilization — challenges the idea that it’s merely problem-solving.
“Can we push these cells to do something other than what they normally do?" asks developmental biologist Michael Levin. "Can they build something completely different?”
There are a number of factors to consider when choosing where to build a telescope. These 3 locations, on their merits, surpass all others.
Scientists still aren't sure how they perform without those restorative Z's.
Volcanologists warn that magma-filled vents evolve over time, leading to an underestimation of the number that might erupt — especially those capable of the biggest explosions
As the world warms, trees in forests such as those in Minnesota will no longer be adapted to their local climates. That’s where assisted migration comes in.
The problem with carnivores turned omnivores.
At least one of Earth's creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
Darwin missed an amazing example of evolution.
Air currents in our atmosphere limit the resolving power of giant telescopes, but computers and artificial stars can sharpen the blur.
Size matters, but it's not the only thing.
The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.
Helplessness isn't learned — it's an instinctual response that can be overcome.
Get stronger in only three seconds per day? New research shows that it is possible.
Telescopes from the ground are bigger, but have to fight the atmosphere. Here’s how to win. In astronomy, seeing farther and fainter than ever before requires three simultaneous approaches. First light, […]
Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past even the limits of Hubble. One of the most profoundly remarkable properties about our atmosphere is that […]