Climate and ecological changes, as well as disruptions to the food chain, were already killing off the dinosaurs.
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When plans fall apart, adaptability can build something better.
From King Midas to Gordon Gekko, humanity has struggled to grasp greed’s true nature.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Newborn stars are surrounded only by a featureless disk. Debris disks persist for hundreds of millions of years. So when do planets form?
“When Harry Met Sally” lied to you.
Too many companies fail to recognize that “the deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated” — but the solution is easy.
A brief look at the six-decade challenge to psychiatry.
Why are we here? What is everything made of? This theoretical physicist says science isn’t the right way to answer these questions.
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There’s nothing like the end of the world to make you a philosopher.
A controversial new philosophy paper tries to bring our moral prejudices to heel. Should it?
With great power comes retcon responsibility.
Today’s philosophy students would be justified in asking, “What does any of this have to do with living?”
The Osbournes was MTV’s biggest show – and it almost cost Jack Osbourne his life. Here’s how his family’s reality TV fame stole his childhood, and how he’s been able to heal since.
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Telegrams were the “Twitter of the 1850s and 1860s” — and they elicited the exact same overblown fears as Twitter does today.
Our state of extreme social interconnectedness has rapidly accelerated the rollercoaster pace at which societal confidence may collapse.
How to find the right balance between controlling teams and allowing them the agency to make mistakes — and learn from them.
“The Man in the High Castle” may be the most beloved alternate history book, but it is not the most historically accurate.
Why the advertising legend — and author of Alchemy — believes that inefficiency can be genius and insects can unlock innovation.
Wind farms seem less productive when scientists incorporate more realistic atmospheric models into their output predictions.
Take it from Bezos, Musk, and Einstein — rethinking lines of inquiry can transform business, investing, and innovation strategy.
Adrie Kusserow, an anthropologist and scholar of Buddhism, shares how her study of the religion and its history has reshaped her view of the world — and herself.
Who doesn’t love a little existential fear every once in a while?
Four startup founders explain how to derive lessons from the past while still looking ahead to what’s possible.
An in-depth interview with astronomer Kelsey Johnson, whose new book, Into the Unknown, explores what remains unknown about the Universe.
One god stands for order, logic, and reason. The other stands for chaos, madness, and drunkenness. Nietzsche thinks you need both.
“The Soul of a New Machine” provides a rare level of insight into the minds and decisions of humanity’s greatest thinkers.
This map samples some of the digits that make up the DDC system, invented by the brilliant but flawed Melvil Dewey.
According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.