Alex Edmans, professor of finance at the London Business School, warns us to be mindful of the incentives surrounding misinformation — including our desire to believe it.
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Common knowledge says the maximum size of a PDF is as big as 40% of Germany — but that’s a gross underestimate.
“People will claim that something is rigorous because it’s by an authority figure or it’s written in a book. But anyone can write a book.”
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With undersea cables, AI education, and more, the tech giant is helping create Africa’s “digital decade.”
Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.
It has perhaps never been easier to feel as if you’ve fallen behind in life. From the anxieties of comparing yourself to others online to our fetishization of success, it […]
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“The Big Map of Who Lived When” plots the lifespans of historical figures — from Eminem all the way back to Genghis Khan.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Your BS detector might not be as accurate as you think.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Across a variety of industries, trust and “upside-down management” have paid dividends.
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You can’t predict success. But according to minds like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku & more, you can hot wire it.
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Former sports agent Molly Fletcher translates the discipline of great athletes into a framework for achievement in any field.
The biggest nuclear blast in history came courtesy of Tsar Bomba. We could make something at least 100 times more powerful.
Brain activity may be more like “ripples in a pond” rather than signals sent on a telecommunications network.
When ancient humans stared into the darkness, they imagined monsters. Today, staring into the future, AI is the monster.
The idea that consciousness emerges naturally alongside intelligence could be an anthropocentric distortion.
Reject your Mental Map Oversimplifications.
It’s not enough to nurture star players — the key is to cultivate everyone’s ability to collaborate and bring value.
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The 1,200-year-old “Book of Ingenious Devices” contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.
The space‑specific neurons in the owl’s specialized auditory brain can do advanced math.
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Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
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