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

“As a reporter, you can look into the eyes of the people you're talking to and try to evaluate what they're thinking when they say what they say. But you are not really gonna get into their brain. There's only one artistic form that allows you to do that. “

We don't learn from history because we can't learn from history.

The African Union argues that the Mercator projection distorts the continent, both in size and global attention.

A conversation about intelligence and consciousness with philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith.

Nuclear chemist Tim Gregory joins Big Think to make the case that nuclear energy can still transform the world for the better.

"One of the ways you can see the Roman Empire is it's the worldwide web of its day."

“Climate analog mapping” finds the place that is currently as warm as your city might be in 60 years.

Historians Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst reexamine the pivotal conflict from a grassroots perspective.

In "Dinner with King Tut," Sam Kean examines how a burgeoning field is recreating ancient tasks to uncover historical truths.