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

“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.

“What did you win? You won awkward silence. You won their contempt. You won the first to apologize. When you win an argument, you will lose their confidence, you will lose their respect, you will lose the connection.”

Your body language sends messages before your mouth does. Author Robert Greene and negotiation expert Daniel Shapiro PhD explain the key characteristics of nonverbal power and emotional presence that shape how others perceive you.

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.

“An equation, perhaps no more than one inch long, that would allow us to, quote, 'Read the mind of God.'”

When it comes to our Universe's origins, scientists discuss the Big Bang, cosmic inflation, and other theories. Why doesn't "God" come up?

“Anxiety is focused on things that are important to you in life. That is the key.”

One does not simply make a meme go viral.

Our minds crave simple, linear narratives. But society rarely follows a straight line.

The conversation you're having with an LLM about groundbreaking new ideas in theoretical physics is completely meritless. Here's why.

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.

Your brain changes when you experience something, and it changes again when you remember it. Two neuroscientists explain what that means for memory, perception, and identity.

What if emotional regulation isn’t just a trait, but a skill parents and teachers can help develop? Ethan Kross reveals what science says about shaping young minds.

Even just by examining the Moon with the unaided eye, we can learn an incredible amount about the Moon, Earth, and more.

“We can make ourselves more likely to be happy by building a life that includes the conditions that make for happiness.”

The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here's how that's possible.

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

"The sense that we are a solid entity, an unchanging entity that exists someplace in our body and takes ownership of our body, and even ownership of our brain rather than being identical to our brain, that is where the illusion lies."

Realizing that matter and energy are quantized is important, but quantum particles aren't the full story; quantum fields are needed, too.

It makes no sense to talk about a “religious life” and a “public life” — there is just life.

“The simplest, most powerful way to reinforce work, not jobs, is to ask people to do something different.”

Stuck on a hamster wheel of mindless social media scrolling? Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff explains how to consciously redirect your reward system.

In "The Headache," Tom Zeller Jr. explores one of the human brain's most enduring, and painful, enigmas.

A conversation with the legendary VC on his latest book, his work at Techstars, and why “give first” is more than a motto — it’s a mindset.

The JFK Memorial at Runnymede provides a link between America's and Britain's founding documents.

From trepanning to lobotomies, humans have long struggled to manage emotion. Today, we have better tools. Psychologist Ethan Kross shares what actually works, and why.