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

A new generation of leaders is forging a path for 21st-century capitalism that’s both profitable and socially responsible.

From landscaped gardens to road systems, the Persians were among the first to create many things we still enjoy today.

Urban legends help personify the anxieties that arise from living in a modern city.

Financial illiteracy can become a significant problem. But it’s a problem with a clear solution.

Steam cars hit the U.S. market in the 1890s but were largely extinct by the 1930s. Will technology bring them back?

How Stacy Madison — founder of Stacy’s Pita Chips and BeBOLD Foods — discovered that reinvention is not a one-off deal but an ongoing process.

Chess was once blamed for triggering mental health problems, including suicide and even murder. Today, the same is said of video games.

Haters and disrespect aside, fruitcake is still a robust American tradition.

Fear of being scammed can lead us to make decisions that go against our values and goals — both as individuals and as a society.

How morally developed are you?

“The function of private media is to make money for the people who own the media. It is a business,” Sanders said.

Six in 10 people say poor mental health impacts their concentration at work.

Would you study abroad online?

As we embrace green solutions, nuclear should absolutely be part of the equation. For thousands upon thousands of years, humans have been harnessing the power of nature to provide energy […]

A computer coder and a lawyer decide they have a right to speak for all the songwriters that ever lived, those who are alive today, and all those yet to be born.

Learn where your ancestors are from, the breed of your rescue dog, and if your home is safe with these easy at-home kits.

Is former Vice President Joe Biden’s “return to normalcy” approach too moderate for Democratic voters?

First of a 3-part series about future technologies and their role in human flourishing.

 By 2003, General Electric, now better known as GE, had a reputation problem. Its long-time image as a company at the forefront of a sparkling future had been shaken. After […]

The two concepts might seem contradictory, but anarcho-capitalists exist.

Why are soda and ice cream each linked to violence? This article delivers the final word on what people mean by “correlation does not imply causation.”

Is it ever okay to believe in things we consider to be impossible or extremely improbable?

Treating the theological and the political as warring forces stops us from looking at the more surprising ways that they interact and inform each other.

Mariam Sultana became her country’s first woman with a Ph.D. in astrophysics. This is her story, with an update on where she is now. Mariam Sultana, Pakistan’s very first woman […]

And the undeniable physics of how fusion actually works. Image credit: The FIRE Place, via http://fire.pppl.gov/. “Between cold fusion and respectable science there is virtually no communication at all. …because the […]

NEW YORK – Last month, a remarkable gathering occurred in Medellín, Colombia. Some 22,000 people came together to attend the World Urban Forum and discuss the future of cities. The […]

Want to tell which of your Facebook friends are brightening your day, and which are bringing you down? There’s an app for that.

Rampant corruption causes headaches for China’s new leadership “They are notorious for deceiving wherever they can. […] Their frauds are most astutely and craftily performed, so that Europeans have to […]

A Slate piece on education starts off by declaring, if you send your kids to private school you’re “a bad person.”  Not “bad like Hitler,” but bad. I don’t want […]