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A.J. Edwards is the director of the new film The Better Angels, which highlights the formative years of Abraham Lincoln. In this Big Think interview, Edwards explains his decision to shoot the film in black and white.

For humans, life around the Gulf has largely returned to normal one years after the B.P. oil spill. Questions linger about the health of wildlife, however, as several species continue to suffer.

It was an elegant accident of editorial timing: two major articles on post-traumatic stress (and the attendant increase in prescription pill use among members of our military), and a beautiful, […]

The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it’s time to overthrow that idea.

The second in a three-part series on the history of research on the origin of life.

In 30 million years, we’ll undergo star formation unlike anything else since before there were mammals on Earth. “Think about it this way — a boomerang goes out and comes back to you […]

This semester I am teaching a doctoral seminar on the important questions and trends related to media, technology and democracy. In this post, I introduce several major topics and provide […]

At the New Yorker last week, science journalist Jonah Lehrer penned a conversation-starting feature on the so-called “decline effect,” the tendency across scientific fields for a new and exciting finding […]

This semester in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that individuals and groups are using the internet to alter […]

This semester in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that Americans are using the Internet to alter the nature […]

This semester in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that Americans are using the Internet to alter the nature […]

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

From acclaimed novels to heretical treatises, sometimes a writer just doesn’t want to put their name on the cover.

And can we run the grid of the future without AI?

Behind America’s hunt for a superior semiconductor.

Many beloved fantasy adventures take place in worlds that bear a striking resemblance to our own.

If “founder mode” runs its course, CEOs should cultivate a new skillset rooted in the authenticity of self-awareness.

Dinosaurs and other beasts were once thought to be the “undisputed masters” of Venus.

If you’re out on a walk, you will see a different world than your dog, a bee, or an ant. Here are three reasons why that matters.

With the discovery of Porphyrion, we’ve now seen black hole jets spanning 24 million light-years: the scale of the cosmic web.

Why would someone who has spent their entire career following orders become a great leader overnight?

Philosophy cures no disease and invents nothing new. What’s even the point?

The mass that gravitates and the mass that resists motion are, somehow, the same mass. But even Einstein didn’t know why this is so.

The big question isn’t whether the Universe is expanding at 67 or 73 km/s/Mpc. It’s why different methods yield such different answers.

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.

Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.

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

A college education currently provides roughly a 10% rate of return, beating the long-term performance of equities.

The sober reality behind the effectiveness of two new drugs touted as Alzheimer’s breakthroughs: lecanemab and donanemab.