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Leaders at the Federal Reserve will meet later this month to discuss potential rate hikes that have most experts and economists split.
It happened 500 years ago — and again in the 19th century.
Work isn't life, but it is certainly not in a company's best interest to de-prioritize itself for the sake of its workers. What's the solution?
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Asteroid mining will be a major engine for future economic growth, says author and entrepreneur Steven Kotler.
How many things do you firmly believe because you read it in the papers or saw it on the news?
Since being jailed last week for contempt of court, Kim Davis has emerged as a heroine for the conservative Christian Right.
There are lots of wrong reasons out there, but only one that matters. “The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in […]
Or did you not even realize you were being watched.
Maycomb is not on any map of the real world, but that doesn't mean it can't be mapped.
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek details the broad influence Albert Einstein had on his career, as well as society as a whole.
As children become more overscheduled, playtime decreases and the pressure to achieve increases. The cost of that trade-off is high.
Words of wisdom from Abraham Lincoln: "Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much."
SAT scores are the lowest they've been in a decade, so we're making the test easier to take. What does that say about our data-obsessed culture?
Human population will rise to 9.7 billion by 2050 and further still to 11.2 billion by 2100. Not to mention global warming.
Take part in the biggest media campaign in history and spread awareness of UN's Global Goals for the next 15 years.
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Bill takes us on a journey through a skeptic's brain to answer a question about spiritual existence.
Only 0.1% of all stars will die in a type II supernova. This one’s running away so fast, it’s literally a “shocking” sight. “The thing is, when you see your […]
The cologne marketed to men as “catnip for women” actually works. Only, not on women, but on jungle cats. “The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that […]
Malta and Hungary are refugee giants, Spain and Poland are refugee dwarves.
In Singapore, National Night is a night for baby-making. What happens when governments sponsor procreation?