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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The case for why AI systems are not merely "stochastic parrots."
Author Zack Kass argues that AI will not end work — it will expand it, pushing us toward new ways of creating, connecting, and adding value.
AI can now generate entire worlds from text prompts. What does this mean for how we think, create, and connect?
Our algorithmic age encourages us to over-index on probabilities — but we should instead exercise our “storythinking brain” and focus on possibilities.
Health policy expert Ezekiel Emanuel says you don’t have to be obsessed to live a healthy life. Wellness can, and should, be something you enjoy.
Emily Mendenhall traces the medical myths, gender bias, and neurological truths behind hysteria, one of history’s most damaging diagnoses.
Travel half the distance to your destination, and there's always another half to go. So how do you eventually arrive? That's Zeno's Paradox.
A practical blueprint for developing leaders through systems, not sessions.
Psychologist Chris Moore reveals why guilt and anxiety lead us to the compassion necessary to earn forgiveness.
In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can't there be an "antigravity" force?
We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.
While ice itself is slick, slippery, and difficult to navigate across under most circumstances, skaters easily glide across the ice.
Neuroscience isn’t dissolving philosophy’s hardest problems — it’s forcing us to rethink where they live.
Bryan Washington, author of “Palaver,” reflects on how moving to Japan and learning a new language shaped his writing.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
By tracking brain activity as primates move freely in the wild, neuroethology could reshape what we think we know about our own minds.
Big Think and the John Templeton Foundation gathered scientists, artists, and storytellers in Los Angeles to explore the power of awe.
To win over any audience you need to master “cut-through” — former TV and film actor Dominic Colenso wants to give you the secret sauce.
In post-apocalyptic fiction, imagined futures turn today’s political and cultural tensions into geography.
Rituals serve psychological functions that go far beyond mere habit or tradition.
As we crank up our search for more powerful AI, maybe we should slow down and reimagine the shape and language of intelligence itself.
Tech legend Bob Taylor — a pioneer of the computing revolution — figured out the genius of framing two types of disagreement.
Researcher and Google CTO Blaise Agüera y Arcas joins us to discuss his new book, "What Is Intelligence?"
Pleasure is never bad — but its source can be.
Conversations about an imminent "AI bubble" tend to miss the big picture.
In this excerpt from "Strange Stability," Benjamin Wilson explores how the concept of "deterrence" went from explaining criminal behavior to becoming a nuclear strategy.
What a 1950s experiment reveals about conformity in the age of the internet.