Strategyzer CEO Alex Osterwalder on why entrepreneurs should take a leaf from Amazon’s innovation playbook.
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Modern culture has made us feel like there’s no time to be patient. Sarah Schnitker’s lab at Baylor University is researching how this often-forgotten virtue could improve our overall well-being.
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The red planet, Mars, may once have been teeming with life, just as Earth is today. Finding “organics” on Mars, however, doesn’t mean life.
Dust is ubiquitous in the modern Universe, appearing in nearly all galaxies. But our cosmos was born dust-free. So where does it originate?
In revolutionary Russia, a group of forward-thinking philosophers offered an alternative to both futurism and communism.
“There’s research showing that people who are curious, who ask questions, are not just happier, they’re not just more successful, they also live longer.”
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In “On Liberalism,” Cass Sunstein argues that liberalism can only endure if we reclaim its core commitments and revive its spirit of freedom and hope for the future.
Strengthen your focus like a muscle.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
“Fraud is a trillion dollar problem, about $5 trillion today with that number increasingly rising annually.”
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From SpaceX to startups, Matt Gjertsen has spent 15 years turning technical specialists into effective managers. Here’s how he does it.
It’s the origin of our entire observable Universe, but it’s still not the very beginning of everything.
Here are three ways to do it better.
Real understanding, argues Jeff DeGraff, doesn’t come from outputs — it comes from practice.
Everything you experience is filtered through your brain, and everyone’s brain is different. Neuroscientist Christof Koch explains how understanding this can deepen your connection to the world around you.
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Biologist Tyler Volk PhD, psychiatrist Bruce Greyson MD, and palliative care physician BJ Miller MD, reveal how confronting mortality can improve the way we live.
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The most common type of exoplanet is neither Earth-sized nor Neptune-sized, but in between. Could these haze-rich worlds house alien life?
In this excerpt from “Facing Infinity,” Jonas Enander examines how John Michell conceived of “dark stars,” or massive bodies with enough gravity to trap light, all the way back in 1783.
A dialogue with Angus Fletcher — author of the bestseller “Primal Intelligence” — exploring the unique engines of human progress.
The Holy Grail of physics is a Theory of Everything: where a single equation describes the whole Universe. But maybe there simply isn’t one?
Reality TV star, music producer, and serial entrepreneur JoJo Simmons on the power of listening and the massive benefits of switching off.
Free speech can amplify hatred, but it also protects the fight against it. Founder of The Future of Free Speech Jacob Mchangama explains.
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JWST isn’t the first telescope to peer into this factory of star-birth some 5500 light-years away, but its views are the most educational.
Going back to 1990, we hadn’t even found one planet outside of our Solar System. As we close in on 6000, we now see many of them directly.
“A lot of the trends in the economy, in family life have just been much harder for working class men.”
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Since even before Einstein, physicists have sought a theory of everything to explain the Universe. Can positive geometry lead us there?
About six million years ago, the Mediterranean was sealed off from the Atlantic, and over centuries it ran dry. One megaflood reversed that.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
“We’re stuck at type zero. But what would it take to move between universes? What would it take to enter a black hole? What would it take to break the light barrier?”
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Across all wavelengths of light, the Sun is brighter than the Moon. Until we went to the highest energies and saw a gamma-ray surprise.