Before becoming America’s most infamous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was a magnetic actor who was beloved by audiences and courted by critics.
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From Nick Carraway to Charles Marlow, these side characters offered truths their scene-stealing protagonists couldn’t.
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
Philosopher Peter Singer argues it’s time to examine a morally dubious practice.
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Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The true story of the shot that “reverberated through England” when science collided head-on with religion.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Lord Kelvin is thought to have said there was nothing new to discover in physics. His real view was the opposite.
Different methods of measuring the Universe’s expansion rate yield high-precision, incompatible answers. But is the problem robustly real?
Today, the F-word is enjoying a renaissance the likes of which it hasn’t seen since, well, the Renaissance.
Every successful leader can mine golden knowledge from the works of the Bard.
A radical proposal reimagines Europe as a carbon-neutral continent where national boundaries are replaced by regions defined by renewable energy capabilities.
“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?”
Japanese thought can’t be easily characterized by just a few books — but this essential guide is a great place to start.
These missions will put us one step closer to the ultimate goal: crewed trips to Mars.
Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.
Boredom isn’t the enemy; it’s a catalyst for changing your relationship to work.
Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.
Presidential gravesites are spread out “democratically” — but this is more by accident than design.
Measurements of the acceleration of the universe don’t agree, stumping physicists working to understand the cosmic past and future. A new proposal seeks to better align these estimates — and is likely testable.
This technological feat changes our cosmic history.
Engineers borrowed the maple tree’s “helicopter” to design tiny, flying microchips, which perform various tasks while in whirling free fall.
Ketamine’s remarkable effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness.
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
Many contemporary composers live in the shadow of Bach and Beethoven, even though they’re just as interesting to listen to.
Stem cell-derived chondrocytes could be the key to regenerating damaged cartilage.