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Cultural Evolution
The ideology, economics, and psychology behind the modern world's draining of color from homes, cars, and everyday objects.
Speculative evolution explores the strange paths natural selection might have taken — and what that means for humans.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
In this excerpt from The Breath of the Gods, Simon Winchester explores how the Sumerians first named the wind and shaped our early understanding of the natural world.
Digital tools are pulling us away from fixed texts and back toward fluid, interactive communication.
Andrew Markell — philosopher, martial artist, and CEO advisor — argues that true endurance comes from desire, ritual, and learning to evolve through chaos.
Getting drunk might be bad for you but good for us.
A conversation with Dr. Susan Schneider on the AI risks we’re not talking about and why the fixation on AGI is misplaced.
This is my country and this is what we stand for. At least for now.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
English could settle into a state of "diglossia" where a gulf exists between the written form and its spoken varieties, but the two are bound into a single tongue.
Are we enslaved by the finer things in life?
Hugo-winning author Ken Liu explores what early cinema and Chinese poetry can teach us about AI's potential as a new artistic medium.
In his book, "Birds, Sex and Beauty," Matt Ridley explores why learning isn't always nature versus nurture.
While death-bed utterances are more famous, baby’s first words have influenced us too.
Do we really need to be religious to run a society well?
What if the barrier to a fulfilled life isn’t technology but culture?
From tribal hunts to Stonehenge and into the modern day, the peer instinct helps humans coordinate their efforts and learning.
The controversial theory about magic mushrooms and human evolution gets a much-needed update.
New evidence suggests the corvid family has surprising mental abilities.
The annual rite of passage has always been more about the ambivalence of adults than the amusement of children.
Religion is a product of, and not a source of, our evolutionary moral dispositions.
In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.
The rise and fall of Josh Harris — the genius who anticipated the digital revolution just a little too soon.
Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.
Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.
While weltschmerz — literally "world-pain" — may be unpleasant, it can also spur us to change things for the better.
“I believe that in the future, there will be a Francis Bacon of AI art,” Saltz tells Big Think. “We just haven't seen that artist yet.”