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In work and life, the rules of success are being redefined.

Female physicians tend to practice medicine as it should be practiced: with care and compassion.

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

In a world without clocks, people used common activities in place of time units. How long it took you to go to the toilet mattered.

Every successful leader can mine golden knowledge from the works of the Bard.

If words are really only 7% of communication, then why would anyone need to learn a foreign language?

Many mavericks look to Einstein as a unique figure, whose lone genius revolutionized the Universe. The big problem? It isn’t true.

Like humans, stars die. The James Webb Space Telescope’s early images already give us a lot of information about how this happens.

In 1903, a Vermont doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. It took him 63 days, $8,000, and 600 gallons of gas.

Neuroscientist Tali Sharot recently spoke with Big Think about a two-step method for escaping the dark sides of habits.

How the simple act of watching twilight can radically transform our perception of the world and our role within it.

One alchemist’s search for a whiz-bang method to produce gold unlocked the central science instead.

A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.

Looking back on our planet’s early history offers a new (and less crazy) meaning for the idea of a “flat Earth.”

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

Science and philosophy seem to be separate fields, but philosophical advancements have made the world more accepting of debate and unorthodox ideas.

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.

Driven by a childhood marked by war and environmental devastation, Dyhia Belhabib developed an innovative technology to combat illegal fishing.

Sound may be an overlooked tool for boosting well-being.

Game theory is a unique combination of math and psychology. Its applications turn up everywhere, from nuclear war to Tinder to game shows.

Even before birth, our brains are taking note of the languages we hear.

The major transformation in the where of modern workplaces is about to collide with a transformation in who is doing that work.

China has always been one of the world’s wealthiest nations, but Chinese wealth looks different across the country’s eventful history.

There are many things in life that cannot be improved with greater effort. Sometimes, life requires that you step back.

Esperanto was intended to be an easy-to-learn second language that enabled you to speak with anyone on the planet.

God is not a vending machine, but is it wrong to treat him like one?

Happiness is not a five-star holiday. It’s often the result of struggle — and asking for help, as author Stephanie Harrison recently told Big Think.

If you give yourself and others space to tinker and experiment, then you might create something incredible. Here’s how to do it well.

Some think the reason fundamental scientific revolutions are so rare is because of groupthink. It’s not; it’s hard to mess with success.