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Locked inside their minds, thousands await a cure. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is racing to find it.
In all the known Universe, Earth is the only planet known to have native life. What should guide us in expanding humanity beyond our world?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Follow the money and you'll follow history.
"Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a truly foreign language."
Barry Ritholtz — market commentator, founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and podcast host — shares what really trips investors up.
Perhaps no existential question looms larger than that of our ultimate cosmic origins. At long last, science has provided the answers.
From religious iconography to modern mysticism, the human aura has been a subject of fascination across centuries and cultures.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Planets can create nuclear power on their own, naturally, without any intelligence or technology. Earth already did: 1.7 billion years ago.
One of the most original and optimistic thinkers in America sketches some big ideas about what's possible with AI in the next 25 years.
Pessimissts are never disappointed, but are they also kinder?
Hugo-winning author Ken Liu explores what early cinema and Chinese poetry can teach us about AI's potential as a new artistic medium.
25 years ago, our concordance picture of cosmology, also known as ΛCDM, came into focus. 25 years later, are we about to break that model?
Spotify's Co-President, CPO and CTO chats with Big Think about the science of discovery, Swedish innovation, C-suite podcasting, and more.
In around 7 billion years, we expect the Sun to run out of fuel, dying in a planetary nebula/white dwarf combination. Is that for certain?
That Nietzsche quote might not mean what you think it does.
It's difficult to project a sphere onto a flat, two-dimensional surface. All maps of the Earth have flaws; the same is true for the cosmos.
The latest season of the "Revolutions" podcast blends history with science fiction to tell the story of the Red Planet's rise.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists must have a cause, and the "first" cause must be God. Is that valid?
What can drugs teach us about consciousness?
Americans have gone through three historic junctures like what we're witnessing today — and they happen on an uncanny 80-year cycle.
Bestselling author Seth Godin urges us to rethink our definition of longevity — and to step back and measure what matters.
The Multiverse isn't just a staple of science fiction; there's real-life science behind it, too. Here are 10 facts to expand your mind.
How the cult hit sci-fi show imagines a “techno-realist” future.
The first in a series of short stories by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author that inspired the cult hit "Pantheon."
Adam Bryant makes a key observation about rising to the challenges of leadership — and your change-resistant former self won’t like it.
Harmony and moderation make for a happier life.
Over a century after we first unlocked the secrets of the quantum universe, people find it more puzzling than ever. Can we make sense of it?