Guest Thinkers — September 8, 2011

My New Blog, Duly Noted, Launches at In These Times

Lindsay Beyerstein

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Business

Lessons from two of the greatest investors of all time

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Starts With A Bang

Claims that “the Universe will end sooner than expected” are false

If all massive objects emit Hawking radiation, not just black holes alone, then everything is unstable, even the Universe. Can that be true?

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13.8

“Mystery humbles you”: Scott Derrickson on why skepticism and faith aren’t enemies

The “Doctor Strange” director says mystery shifts your worldview — “not in a metaphorical sense, but in a deeply experiential one.”

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Business

Curiosity as a survival skill to navigate change

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

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Books

Is English a “killer” language — or is it dying?

English could settle into a state of “diglossia” where a gulf exists between the written form and its spoken varieties, but the two are bound into a single tongue.

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Making Green Cash from Trash

A Belgian company is working on mining landfills to remove raw materials and make energy and building materials out of them, and then redevelop the land.