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Verily, a branch of Google’s parent company, recently finished its second study of a counterintuitive technique that kills mosquitoes without using traditional insect sprays.
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We need to fully acknowledge problems, while vigorously pursuing solutions. Call it “solutionism.”
Achieving values and pursuing growth is the real secret to a fulfilled life.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.
From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity’s journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.
9 minutes of cruel history may cure the anti-progress delusion.
The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.
How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history.
Since 1962, humanity has been sending messages into space with the intent to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Are those efforts worth the risks?
Two scientists recently wagered a bottle of whiskey. The bet? Whether we’ll find evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life in the next 15 years.
If you find yourself on one of these roads, it might be a while before you see another fellow traveler.
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From astrobiology to geology, a Moon base could serve as a laboratory unlike anything on Earth.
Our inaugural special issue is focused on progress — the search for, the study of, and the project towards a better world.
“Strategic ambiguity” has long been the West’s strategy on Taiwan.
Just 12 million light-years away, the galaxies Messier 81 and 82 offer a nearby preview of the Milky Way-Andromeda merger.
Research from Denmark finds that mindfulness and music help sustain attention.
The world’s most isolated inhabited island also has some of the world’s strangest toponyms.
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Researchers believe that war exacerbates climate change, threatening the environment and making future wars more likely.
Is the pessimism about jobs totally unwarented?
The war machine needs fuel, perhaps so much as to make protecting oil redundant.
It’s the first time humans have landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon.
The costs of the War in Afghanistan are astounding and without end, with the war about to enter its 17th year.
Even with nothing new falling into it, our radius is increasing with every second that goes by. It’s no big secret that galaxies grow over time. The force of gravity is […]