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Groundbreaking invention does not always translate to commercial benefits. The challenges that faced Microsoft Research help explain why.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Our brains cling to the bad. This method could help balance the scales.
Some physicists are besot with the multiverse, but if we can’t detect these other universes, how seriously should we take them?
MAPS founder Rick Doblin speaks to Big Think about the FDA’s rejection of MDMA therapy and the future of psychedelic treatments.
Unlock the full potential of your creativity with holistic detachment. This is the way of the editor.
Artificial intelligence is much more than image generation and smart-sounding chatbots; it’s also a Nobel-worthy endeavor rooted in physics!
Hybrid animals emerge when two different species from the same family reproduce. For many years, the kunga’s lineage was just another genetic mystery.
Each of us carries our own version of the Multiverse in our heads.
Innovative thinking has done away with problems that long dogged the electric devices — and both scientists and environmentalists are excited about the possibilities.
A powerful psychedelic long used in African rituals shows surprising promise for treating traumatic brain injury and PTSD.
“Think defensively about how you can protect yourself from an almost inevitable attack, rather than assuming you’ll avoid harm.”
Fittingly, the skull was found in the Rising Star cave of South Africa, itself located at a site known to UNESCO as the Cradle of Mankind.
The poisoned candy legend is just one way that American fears manifested: as an easily understood threat to innocence.
As a new industry emerges, therapists need to be educated.
The Chumash people poked bits of psychoactive plants into cave ceilings next to their paintings.
The heart of the religious ritual is mysticism, argues Brian Muraresku in “The Immortality Key.”
Psychedelics are going mainstream. Here’s your reading list.
Known as the ‘North Star,’ Polaris won’t stay that way forever. Planet Earth spins a full 360°, about its axis, every 24 hours. The Earth in orbit around the Sun, with […]
Protest music is a natural feature of humanity.
An algorithm produced every possible melody. Now its creators want to destroy songwriter copyrights.
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.
Why do so many people report encounters with seemingly similar entities after taking DMT?
Clinical studies are underway. How we treat them moving forward matters.
Professor George Church creates a gene “wishlist” that can lead to superhuman abilities.
Flattening the curve on panic and disinformation.
Brain scans reveal why insomnia sufferers can’t get sleep.
The psychological disconnect between humans and other animals puts all forms of life at risk.
Easter eggs have been hidden in video games since Atari’s Adventure; now Google search has hidden an entire adventure game.
Starting this fall, public schools in Florida will be required to display the words “In God We Trust” in a noticeable place within each building used by a district.