In Georgia, it’s becoming less common to pronounce words like “prize” as “prahz.”
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but behaves like a particle whenever it interacts. The origins of this duality go way back.
Life in the supremely vast cosmos is incredibly rare. We need a new vision for our living planet and for ourselves.
From Hogwarts to hashtags, kids’ reading habits have changed drastically in recent decades — but data suggests cause for hope.
The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it’s time to overthrow that idea.
In many city-states, it was perfectly acceptable for older men to have sexual relationships with young boys.
Straddling the bounds of science and religion, Newton wondered who set the planets in motion. Astrophysics reveals the answer.
See the world through the eyes of a horse — or a cake pan.
The Big Bang’s hot glow faded away after only a few million years, leaving the Universe dark until the first stars formed. Oh, the changes!
He is only out-sold by William Shakespeare and Lao Tzu.
Do we actually live in a deterministic Universe, despite quantum physics? An alternative, non-spooky interpretation has now been ruled out.
These books helped build the empirical case that life’s origins differ from those described in myths and legends.
Yondr CEO Graham Dugoni unpacks the technological zeitgeist in this exclusive Big Think interview covering media ecology, leadership, AI, human connection, and much more.
She apparently learned some valuable business skills as a former prostitute.
For nearly 25 years, we thought we knew how the Universe would end. Now, new measurements point to a profoundly different conclusion.
“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”
For thousands of years, humanity had no idea how far away the stars were. In the 1600s, Newton, Huygens, and Hooke all claimed to get there.
“It’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.”
Here’s how to appreciate them from a distance.
Science is for everyone, even those possessing strongly held beliefs that seem to conflict with the best available evidence.
From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?
Compared to Earth, Mars is small, cold, dry, and lifeless. But 3.4 billion years ago, a killer asteroid caused a Martian megatsunami.
The Universe is grand, awe-inspiring, and greater than we likely imagine. Even astrophysicists get anxious thinking about it, but we cope.
The Industrial Revolution changed music forever, thanks to a combination of technological advances and clever entrepreneurs.
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.
1859’s Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.
As we gain new knowledge, our scientific picture of how the Universe works must evolve. This is a feature of the Big Bang, not a bug.