Japanese thought can’t be easily characterized by just a few books — but this essential guide is a great place to start.
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When plans fall apart, adaptability can build something better.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
In his book, “Birds, Sex and Beauty,” Matt Ridley explores why learning isn’t always nature versus nurture.
An excerpt from renowned neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s book “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.”
Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring Starship’s second test flight, a new “dark mysteries” telescope, and more.
An excerpt from “Memory,” a primer on human memory, its workings, feats, and flaws, by two leading psychological researchers.
There was a lot of hype and a lot of nonsense, but also some profoundly major advances. Here are the biggest ones you may have missed.
Self-help often distills philosophical ideas for the modern ear. Sometimes, its better to go back to the source.
A-list lessons for better work-life collaboration — direct from the movie set.
An atheist’s case for why American democracy needs a more Christlike Christianity.
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Do grim sci-fi scenarios crush our hopes for real-world growth? Author Michael Harris looks elsewhere to unblock the road to a better future.
To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.
In “Enough Is Enuf,” Gabe Henry traces the history of simplified spelling movements and the lessons they teach us about language.
True north, magnetic north, and grid north have aligned. There’s also a connection to James Bond.
These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.
Boredom isn’t the enemy; it’s a catalyst for changing your relationship to work.
Think you can hide your feelings pretty easily?
Carnivorous plants fascinate as much now as when their gruesome diet was first discovered.
After it became clear that the world wasn’t 6,000 years old, some proposed that northern peoples had emerged independently from others.
With launch, deployment, calibration, and science operations about to commence, here are 10 facts that are absolutely true.
“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”
Previously, only the brightest and most active galaxies could pierce the obscuring wall of cosmic dust. At last, normal galaxies break through.
Different methods of measuring the Universe’s expansion rate yield high-precision, incompatible answers. But is the problem robustly real?
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
Deepfakes featuring your digital double could replace emails and zoom presentations.
Presidential gravesites are spread out “democratically” — but this is more by accident than design.
In determining what qualifies as solid science, controversy is inevitable.