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Dr. Aditi Nerurkar on toxic resilience and the importance of gratitude and breathing.
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Talking about money with loved ones is awkward. Here’s how to do it.
Futurist Ari Wallach shares how to become future-conscious.
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Not all conflict is bad. Expert Priya Parker explains how “heat” can be harnessed for good.
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Who — or what — really controls your mind?
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Growth strategist and former Salesforce executive Tiffani Bova shares why investing in your employees is essential to improve customer experience, unlock innovation and accelerate revenue growth.
A-list lessons for better work-life collaboration — direct from the movie set.
How did complex systems emerge from chaos? Physicist Sean Carroll explains.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Your sexual education was probably inadequate. Here’s the information you always needed.
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“In order to seek truth,” Rene Descartes once wrote, “it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
Misinterpreted data may be distorting Western predictions about the future of China’s economy.
“When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset.”
Chemical changes inside Mars’ core caused it to lose its magnetic field. This, in turn, caused it to lose its oceans. But how?
Why does time move forward but not backward? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains.
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Steven Pinker explains how to cultivate greater rationality in today’s complex world.
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When a whoopsie-daisy just won’t cut it.
When is a rabbit not a rabbit? When it’s a thought experiment designed to reveal the tricky tango of language and concepts.
An interview with filmmaker Jason Sussberg about his new film about Stewart Brand and the importance of culture in achieving progress.
The replication crisis has debunked many of psychology’s fair-haired hypotheses, but for the marshmallow test, things have only become more interesting.
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Airbnb alum Chip Conley shares lessons learned on ageless leadership, intergenerational workforces and the power of mentorship.
How the Big Bang gave us time, explained by theoretical physicist.
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If you think of the Big Bang as an explosion, we can trace it back to a single point-of-origin. But what if it happened everywhere at once?
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Universe, explained by physicist Sean Carroll.
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Through woodworking, John Furniss, known as The Blind Woodsman, discovered a new purpose and a way to share his vision with the world.
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This productivity hack comes with an asterisk, explains note-taking guru Tiago Forte.
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Humans are musical animals four million years in the making, explained by music expert Michael Spitzer.
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If the daily grind feels like Sartre’s phony act of “bad faith,” Heidegger’s sense of “being” can help redefine your role.
The Danish philosopher’s simple paradox — living forwards while looking backwards — can be translated into golden business insights.