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You can’t predict success. But according to minds like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku & more, you can hot wire it.

Is gravity weaker over distances of billions of light-years?

Perhaps it’s not just an oddly shaped hill, after all.

Your brain is trying to show you the future.

A new hypothesis accuses the simple sugar of wrecking energy metabolism.

The US needs 28 million EV chargers by 2030. Here’s how it can get there.

To be happy, you have to become antifragile first. Harvard’s Tal Ben-Shahar explains.

The nation-state had a good run, but its usefulness may have come to an end.

In a major shift, psychologists now view an out-of-control compulsion to work as an addiction with its own set of risk factors and consequences.

Plagues, war, and genocide were literally frozen in time.

Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring Starship’s second test flight, a new “dark mysteries” telescope, and more.

A dog’s breed isn’t as predictive of behavior as many think it is. Environment and upbringing play a much larger role.

College students once stood out from the pack on IQ tests. Today, they’re about average.

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

Most electric car charging is done at night. A grid powered mostly by renewable energy might not be able to meet demand, but there is a solution.

Whole Foods Market founding CEO John Mackey synthesized the counterculture with capitalism and drove a food revolution.

Synthetic milk is not a sci-fi fantasy; it already exists.

In numerous cultures worldwide, women were just as involved in bringing home the prehistoric bacon as their male counterparts.

A team of scientists has warned that marketers seek to advertise in our dreams. Will our sleep be commercialized against our wishes?

Within the next few decades, we may well have hard evidence for the existence of alien life on worlds light-years distant from Earth.

The carbon market and offsetting system have created “carbon cowboys” and perpetuated forms of neo-colonialism and other inequities.

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

Don’t make the mistake of blindly following quantitative metrics — whether you’re helping clients or looking for lunch.

The patron saint of calling BS, Harry Frankfurt, died watching his philosophy become more urgent than ever.

Ethan Mollick, associate professor at the Wharton School, explains why we have to crack the machine-buddy problem.

Quantum computing brings significant opportunities — but equally significant cybersecurity risks.

De-extinction, if it is ever possible, will not be simple.

Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.

“If you’re training an AI to optimize for a task, and deception is a good way for it to complete the task, then there’s a good chance that it will use deception.”