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It's possible to remove all forms of matter, radiation, and curvature from space. When you do, dark energy still remains. Is this mandatory?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Do we actually live in a deterministic Universe, despite quantum physics? An alternative, non-spooky interpretation has now been ruled out.
It's deceptively tricky to distinguish living systems from non-living systems. Physics may be key to solving the problem.
Some biologists believe natural selection produces animals that are just good enough. Dawkins disagrees.
Does Platonic love actually exist?
Within our observable Universe, there's only one Earth and one "you." But in a vast multiverse, so much more becomes possible.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
By focusing on the role of human experience, we may uncover new insights on the fundamental structure of reality.
Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki discusses the dangers of cynicism and how skepticism can invigorate our relationships and communities.
How to find the right balance between controlling teams and allowing them the agency to make mistakes — and learn from them.
Oliver Burkeman — author of "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals" — tells Big Think about modern life lessons from a 6th-century monk.
By unlearning old leadership mindsets, cultures, and assumptions we can move from Industrial Age thinking to Intelligence Age thinking.
Desire is like a drug. But is an addict always an addict?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Taught in every introductory physics class for centuries, the parabola is only an imperfect approximation for the true path of a projectile.
There's value to be found in the arguments that make you uncomfortable — especially in a culture that has trained us to avoid them.
"The Big Map of Who Lived When" plots the lifespans of historical figures — from Eminem all the way back to Genghis Khan.
With the right prompts, large language models can produce quality writing — and make us question the limits of human creativity.
Why human attempts to mechanize logic keep breaking down.
Philosophy cures no disease and invents nothing new. What's even the point?
The mass that gravitates and the mass that resists motion are, somehow, the same mass. But even Einstein didn't know why this is so.
Thinking of a number between one and ten? Here's how predictable human responses create the illusion of telepathy.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
As creatures and machines meld together in increasingly advanced forms, ethicists are starting to take note.
Most leaders get the psychology of human motivation all wrong — here’s how a presidential encounter with a leaf-sweeper puts it right.
For extraordinary long-term success in business we can look to insights from British Olympic cycling, Roger Federer and neuroeconomics.
Here on Earth, we commonly use terms like weight (in pounds) and mass (in kilograms) as though they're interchangeable. They're not.
In "Life As No One Knows It," Sara Imari Walker explains why the key distinction between life and other kinds of "things" is how life uses information.
We can address the misalignment between the current leadership reality and traditional leadership practices with a simple formula.