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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Everyone loves a good underdog story, but the lessons we derive from them depend on how they’re told.
To kickstart innovation follow the insider startup knowledge about charisma, “well-rounded square pegs,” and rock-solid teams.
In “Human History on Drugs,” Sam Kelly explores what the research can tell us about one of history’s most brilliant — and troubled — artists.
In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.
Esperanto was intended to be an easy-to-learn second language that enabled you to speak with anyone on the planet.
Kathryn Harkup, chemist and author of V Is for Venom, joins Big Think to discuss why Christie isn’t just a brilliant writer but a unique science communicator.
Symmetries aren’t just about folding or rotating a piece of paper, but have a profound array of applications when it comes to physics.
The author of Frankenstein had an obsession with the cemetery and saw love and death as connected.
After 70 years, “The Power of Positive Thinking” remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.
The Industrial Revolution changed music forever, thanks to a combination of technological advances and clever entrepreneurs.
Inequality in wealth, gender, and race grew to unprecedented levels across the world, according to OxFam report.
The business case for diversity and inclusion is overwhelming. We know that diverse teams benefit from increased productivity and a wider knowledge base. We know that varied perspectives help us […]
Solar geoengineering ideas could weaken storms in both hemispheres, scientists find.
Water may be far more abundant on the lunar surface than previously thought.
Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in science. But what are they? One of the major goals of science is to describe our reality as accurately as possible. […]
In “The Immortality Key,” Brian Muraresku speculates that the Eucharist could have once been more colorful.
Fintech companies are using elements of video games to make personal finance more fun. But does it work, and what are the risks?
And after years of mystery, we finally know where they come from. Here on Earth, thunderstorms and accompanying lightning strikes represent tremendous releases of energy. It was way back in 2011 […]
Jonathan Berman wants us to have better dialogues.
For many, 2020 will not be remembered as a “best of” much. We don’t need to repeat the reasons here; it’s sufficient to point out that a 100-year pandemic was […]
There are reasons you look the way you do.
It’s fundamentally different from space. Here’s how. Here’s a question that most of us have been asked at some point in our lives, “what’s the shortest distance between two points?” By […]
A wealthy team doesn’t automatically make for a successful team.
We put presidents on our money, but isn’t there more to life than politics?
We’ve been taking our eyebrows for granted. They may in fact be the thing that let us become the dominant species on Earth.