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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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“So many things could have happened in a different way that we wouldn't be here at all, both individually, for sure, and certainly as a species.”
Wonder is like a guest you haven’t planned for.
There are real concerns with long-term power generation on the Moon; nuclear could be the answer. But for NASA, will the cost be too high?
From Einstein to Twain, Garson O’Toole investigates the truth behind your favorite — and often misattributed — quotes.
The investment advisor and host of the Talking Billions podcast explores childhood curiosity, building networks through kindness, and more.
At the end of July, hundreds of scientists convened to plan NASA's upcoming astrophysics flagship mission. Will the US allow it to happen?
“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.
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.
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 psychologist, educator, and former NBA player discusses the professional volumes and childhood stories that shaped his life and his approach to it.
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.
Even just by examining the Moon with the unaided eye, we can learn an incredible amount about the Moon, Earth, and more.
Some books are remembered for their lyrical prose or engaging stories. Others are remembered for simply being weird.
It makes no sense to talk about a “religious life” and a “public life” — there is just life.
With the right material at the right temperature and a magnetic track, physics really does allow perpetual motion without energy loss.
In "The Headache," Tom Zeller Jr. explores one of the human brain's most enduring, and painful, enigmas.
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?
Before becoming America’s most infamous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was a magnetic actor who was beloved by audiences and courted by critics.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
From high school through the professional ranks, physicists still take incredible lessons away from Newton's second law.
After more than a million years of separation, two branches of humanity reunited around 300,000 years ago, suggests new research.
In "Dinner with King Tut," Sam Kean examines how a burgeoning field is recreating ancient tasks to uncover historical truths.
The measured value of the cosmological constant is 120 orders of magnitude smaller than what's predicted. How can this paradox be resolved?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Can the top quark, the shortest-lived particle of all, bind with anything else? Yes it can! New results at the LHC demonstrate toponium exists.
In "Human History on Drugs," Sam Kelly explores what the research can tell us about one of history’s most brilliant — and troubled — artists.