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Inside the world’s most important company

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

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The Present

Why the USSR and China fell behind the US in the Chip Cold War

Both nations made missteps, but China still has a chance to make up lost ground.

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The Future

Silicon chips are no longer sustainable. Here’s what’s next.

Behind America’s hunt for a superior semiconductor.

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Neuropsych

Want to remember more? Memorize less.

To make a ton of information stick in your mind, you have to make it chunky.

Starts With A Bang

Science Shows Us Just How Frozen Star Wars’ Ice Planet Hoth Must Be

If an AT-AT walker (or something even larger) wanted to walk across a frozen lake, how thick would the ice have to be? Each winter, one of the most spectacular phenomena […]

The Present

20% of gamblers attempt suicide — why don’t we take the addiction more seriously?

Americans lost $116.9 billion gambling in 2016.

Politics & Current Affairs

Senators want new laws after a Russian oligarch bought Maryland’s elections vendor

Maryland officials want lawmakers to support language that would require vendors of elections services to disclose when a foreign actor takes control of one of their companies.

Technology & Innovation

AI’s newest target for worker displacement: journalists?

Artificial intelligence has so far replaced more menial labor, but could it one day soon come for the more analytical positions in the economy like writers and reporters? What will become of journalism?

How To Protect Your Car From Hackers

The FBI issued a PSA this week warning us of how hackers can take control of our cars. Its time for a software upgrade.

Guest Thinkers

Framing Science Talk and Seminar at Cal Tech

Next week, I will be teaming up with Chris Mooney at Cal Tech for an evening lecture followed by a day long science communication seminar for the university’s graduate students […]

Guest Thinkers

Why the PZ Myers Affair is Really, Really Bad for Science

If you haven’t seen this clip yet, above is a preview of the central message on how “Big Science” views religion in the documentary Expelled. There’s little work needed on […]