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Generative AI is arriving fast — both overtly and covertly — and without solid L&D guidance leaders and teams will be hobbled, argues Matt Beane.

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.

Johns Hopkins professor Dr. Matthew Johnson answers 24 huge questions about psychedelics.

So many of the conditions for a sale or IPO are outside your control — which is why preparation is everything.

“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

Futurist Ari Wallach shares how to become future-conscious.

The original principle of relativity, proposed by Galileo way back in the early 1600s, remains true in its unchanged form even today.

Like toddlers, adults can also get “overtired.”

This supremely simple hack can help you establish good habits, break bad ones, and guard against failure.

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

Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter.

Are you a video gaming master? Put it on your résumé.

Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.

“We are what our bodies do with what we eat.”

Slack’s recent radical upskilling booster week highlighted the urgent need for new approaches to L&D: here are some of the most groundbreaking.

Learn to spot the scientists who are searching for the truth rather than money, ego, or fame.

These prices are too good to pass up on.

During the industrial era the cost of artificial light fell off a cliff — and the road to illumination was paved with ingenuity and slaughter.

New tech is a double-edged sword. Integration can be expensive and perilous: Mess up the adoption and jobs are on the line. 

What we can learn from our complicated relationship with boredom.

Particles are everywhere, including particles from space that stream through the human body. Here’s how they prove Einstein’s relativity.

An analogy explains the greater fool theory: You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away; you just have to run faster than the other guy.

Most waves need a medium to travel through. But the way that light and gravitational waves travel shows that space can’t be a medium at all.

Here on Earth, we commonly use terms like weight (in pounds) and mass (in kilograms) as though they’re interchangeable. They’re not.

Many were expecting extremism survivor and free speech advocate Salman Rushdie to take home the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Annie Ernaux beat him to it.

Ryan Condal, who worked in pharmaceutical advertising before Hollywood, talks with Big Think about imposter syndrome, “precrastination,” and Westeros lore.

The Netflix show about a Birmingham crime family and their personal demons concluded earlier this month. 

There are many problems with relying on SAT and ACT scores for college admissions. But removing them entirely creates less opportunity.

Technology will not save the world, and it is inherently neither good nor bad. But, when tech is coupled to human virtue, good will prevail.