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“As a reporter, you can look into the eyes of the people you're talking to and try to evaluate what they're thinking when they say what they say. But you are not really gonna get into their brain. There's only one artistic form that allows you to do that. “

From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?

In this excerpt from "The Formula for Better Health," Tom Frieden explores how Alice Hamilton transformed public health in her fight against lead poisoning.

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?

Psychologist Daniel Goleman refers to the "optimal state" of peak performance, where tasks flow effortlessly and accomplishment fuels energy, and emphasizes that it can be achieved through mindfulness, focus, and emotional intelligence at individual, team, and organizational levels.

All of the matter that we measure today originated in the hot Big Bang. But even before that, and far into the future, it'll never be empty.

Workplace community is too often dismissed as an HR initiative, when in reality it’s the key to driving business results through frontline employee performance.

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.

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.

A neuroscientist, a psychologist, and a psychotherapist discuss how emotions are stories built from old experiences.

The African Union argues that the Mercator projection distorts the continent, both in size and global attention.

As we look to larger cosmic scales, we get a broader view of the expansive cosmic forest, eventually revealing the grandest views of all.

When a tree becomes a swing.

Virtue is hard to attain, and that’s the point. Sarah Schnitker explains why self-help shortcuts miss the mark.

Throughout history, "free energy" has been a scammer's game, such as perpetual motion. But with zero-point energy, is it actually possible?

Sikh American scholar and historian Simran Jeet Singh on helping kids imagine — and create — a more empathetic world.

The Universe was born incredibly hot, and has expanded and cooled ever since. Could life have begun back when space was "room temperature?"

What happens when the boundaries of “you” disappear? James Fadiman, PhD, Jamie Wheal, and Matthew Johnson, PhD explore how supported experiences with psychoactive drugs can dissolve identity and reveal a deeper reality.

In the post-AI startup landscape, the role of the entrepreneur will evolve from operator to orchestrator. Are you ready?

Wonder is like a guest you haven’t planned for.

The investment advisor and host of the Talking Billions podcast explores childhood curiosity, building networks through kindness, and more.

At the end of July, hundreds of scientists convened to plan NASA's upcoming astrophysics flagship mission. Will the US allow it to happen?

Historians Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst reexamine the pivotal conflict from a grassroots perspective.

Author and geopolitical strategist Paulo Cardoso do Amaral urges us to ask: Will we shape AI with wisdom, or will AI reshape us with strategy?

The measured value of the cosmological constant is 120 orders of magnitude smaller than what's predicted. How can this paradox be resolved?

When organizations focus on finding new markets, the returns can be spectacular — as a case study from Australia perfectly illustrates.

In this excerpt from "Agents of Change," Christina Hillsberg tells the story of Martha “Marti” Peterson, the first female case officer stationed in Soviet Moscow.

In "The Gift of Not Belonging," Rami Kaminski explains why group consensus may hinder the original thinkers who help advance society.

The ANITA experiment found cosmic rays shooting out of Antarctica. One interpretation claims "parallel Universes," but is that right?