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A healthy lifestyle even protects those who are genetically predisposed to depression.

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

Unraveling the subtle mechanics of luck can help us better steer the wheel of fortune.

Nobody likes the uneasy feeling of being watched — so can there be any workplace benefit to the all-seeing eye?

The soft robotic models are patient-specific and could help clinicians zero in on the best implant for an individual.

A reduced working week, argues Juliet Schor, is part of a sane response to the impacts of AI and robotization on human labor.

What made Leonardo da Vinci last wasn’t magic — it was process — and his study of fluids can help us win the long game.

Biology plays an important role in emotional reactions, but neuroscientist Kristen A. Lindquist posits that our culture is just as influential.

Studying why innovation clusters form can shed light on how to better promote research and growth.

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

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

Is Eliezer Yudkowsky the same false prophet that Paul Ehrlich was?

It’s good to be a wallflower. But sometimes, you need to show yourself off a bit.

Feminist “man-hating” appears to be a myth.

A key question is how to keep that relief going without relying solely on repeated ketamine infusions.

The digital world will always entail risks for teens, but that doesn’t mean parents aren’t without recourse.

Kurzweil predicts that AI will combine with biotechnology to defeat degenerative diseases this decade. Then things will get really interesting.

Researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices.

At the turn of the millennium, a physicist fooled the global scientific community with the greatest discovery that never existed.

Unfortunately, the Lunar Ark project is an idea more at home in science fiction than science fact.

Archaeologist Bernard Frischer spent decades uploading the ruins of the Eternal City to the cloud. Here’s what it looks like.

BMW found it’s possible to remote-drive vehicles using available technology. All it takes is some software updates and a cellular network connection.

In “Life As No One Knows It,” Sara Imari Walker explains why the key distinction between life and other kinds of “things” is how life uses information.

From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.

We need a “theory that explains the evolution of evolution,” argues theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker.

“Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a truly foreign language.”

“We should be informed and educated about the risks of AI, but we can’t be afraid,” Khan Academy founder Sal Khan told Big Think.

Even with the best technology imaginable, you’d probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.

Maybe bring an umbrella just in case.

What began as an annoyance ended as a Nobel Prize-winning discovery about the Big Bang and the origin of the Universe.