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Former tech founder Scott Britton wants to shatter the binary myth that separates driving ambition from inner development.
We chat with Mark Klarzynski, founder of PEAK:AIO, on how his company became an international player in data storage for the age of AI.
We’ve now detected hundreds of gravitational waves with LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA. What if we tried Weber’s original method in the modern day?
The great books aren’t just classics — they’re cultural Schelling points that give our minds a place to meet up in the world of ideas.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The first world beyond Earth for human habitability should be the Moon, not Mars. This is why we should terraform our lunar neighbor first.
Metacognition — the ability to think about your thinking — can help you learn faster and make better decisions.
Fibonacci’s “Liber Abaci” not only revolutionized commerce — it also helped nudge the world towards reasoned, quantitative enquiry.
Panpsychist philosopher Philip Goff, PhD on mysticism and the future of faith.
Times dilate and lengths contract near the speed of light. Bizarre and confusing? Sure. But under relativity, it can’t be any other way.
In this excerpt from “The Shortest History of AI,” Toby Walsh explores the history of the Logic Theorist, the first AI to prove mathematical theorems.
Stellar streams are faint trails of stars that appear to “stream” out of galaxies. A new one, escaping galaxy M61, may point to many others.
How did Jobs revolutionize tech, not once but continually? Aspiring innovators — and today’s Apple — should look to The Bard and seek out singularity.
When dying, Sun-like stars have binary companions, spectacular sights arise from the ionization. JWST spots the Red Spider Nebula in action!
There’s some, but not overwhelming, evidence that dark energy is evolving. What would it take for a “Big Crunch” to be our cosmic fate?
A preview of the latest novel by the National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Scientists are notoriously resistant to new ideas. Are they falling prey to groupthink? Or are our current theories just that successful?
The plan — conquer China and push west to attack the Ottomans — was peak imperial hubris, as the Spanish themselves eventually realized.
Maybe — just don’t expect a carbon copy.
Andrew Markell — philosopher, martial artist, and CEO advisor — argues that true endurance comes from desire, ritual, and learning to evolve through chaos.
Physicist Daniel Whiteson challenges the notion that all intelligent species would eventually uncover the same laws of nature. Do you agree?
Reading classic books can teach you as much about the present as the past.
Rivals may try to outnumber us with fleets of cheap vessels. Our path is to out-innovate them.
Why the most enduring organizations stop chasing trends and start designing systems that prioritize people over processes.
Wales shares with Big Think his thoughts about the future of media, the promise of AI, and our need to build a culture on trust.
Introverts have social batteries that will drain over time, but they can be recharged with good energy hygiene. Here’s how.
Nearly 100 years after being theorized, the strange behavior of the neutrino still mystifies us. They could be even stranger than we know.