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Philosophy
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.
Even just by examining the Moon with the unaided eye, we can learn an incredible amount about the Moon, Earth, and more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s something to wrestle and live with, says behavioral scientist Arthur Brooks.
How deep is your kink?
No matter what it is that we discover about reality, the fact that reality itself can be understood remains the most amazing fact of all.
In "Dinner with King Tut," Sam Kean examines how a burgeoning field is recreating ancient tasks to uncover historical truths.