Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Video – The scrollwheel

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A video for those of you who get frustrated with others who are less technology proficient. I confess that people who still type URLs into search boxes drive me nuts too!

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Business

Why I’m writing OUTLAST: a book about resilience (and hope)

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

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Starts With A Bang

Ask Ethan: Is dark energy just leftover momentum from the Big Bang?

Since 1998, we’ve known our Universe isn’t just expanding, but the expansion is accelerating. Could the Big Bang itself be the reason why?

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Books

What happens when you follow the Bible literally for a whole year?

A.J. Jacobs looks back at what he learned about religion, himself, and modern American culture during “The Year of Living Biblically.”

A green planet with rings is shown against a starry black background, with shadowy humanoid figures visible inside the planet’s outline.

The Past

Aliens, everywhere: Why scientists once assumed every planet was inhabited

Long before the search for biosignatures, scientists imagined a cosmos teeming with intelligent life.

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Books

The 6 books that changed King Willonius’ life

The comedian and musician behind the viral hit “BBL Drizzy” shares the books that shaped his thinking and approach to art.

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