Here, at the dawn of our second quarter century, we’re thrilled to announce our next generation leadership: Rebecca Lendl as ...

The practice of reframing how we think about time has been woven into Long Now's DNA since our inception, and yet long-term ...

Niall Ferguson is a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, and at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, as well as visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, London. “This time is ...

Frank Fukuyama's 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man had profound and lasting impact with its declaration that science and technology, the growing global economy, and liberal democracy are ...

The war against computer freedom will just keep escalating, Doctorow contends. The copyright wars, net neutrality, and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) were early samples of what is to come. Victories in ...

A close student and observer of the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe twenty years ago, engineer Dmitry Orlov finds a similar sequence of events taking shape in America. His savagely ...

Frank Ostaseski is a Buddhist teacher, lecturer, and author focusing on contemplative end-of-life care. His book is The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully. It’s a ...

Carson invites audiences to experience AI not as a threat to human identity but as a catalyst for discovery and growth, ...

Neuroscientist David Eagleman is director for the Laboratory of Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and author of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. David Eagleman may be ...

Boroditsky is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and Editor in Chief of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology. She has received a NSF CAREER award, was named a Searle Scholar, and ...

Anthropologist/ecologist Stephen Lansing tells a gorgeous tale of how spiritual practices in Bali have finessed over 1,000 years the most nuanced and productive agricultural system in the world.

Ever since Columbus, it’s an alien invasive world. Everybody’s germs, insects, vegetables, staple foods, rats, domestic animals, and even wildlife went everywhere, changing everything. That convulsion ...