Research suggests that cold showers are an effective way of boosting the circulation system while also offering mood-lifting benefits on the side.

“Envy is a really stupid sin because it’s the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There’s a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you […]

The United Nations is expected to adopt the World Bank's goal of eliminating extreme poverty by 2030. Whether that goal is feasible depends on just how many resources one expects will be put to use in the effort.

Sir Richard Francis Burton, famed 19th century explorer, on world religions: "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

Eliminating the estate tax makes no sense in a meritocratic system, yet most Americans are against the so-called "death tax." The reasons why range from the hypocritical to the woefully ignorant.

"Exposure" and "experience" are rarely worth uncompensated labor.

Procrastinators should watch themselves; according to a recent study, putting off today what you could do tomorrow may have ties to heart disease.

The more education people have, the more ignorant they may be. Ignoring our ignorance and assuming we know much more than we actually do seems to be a universal human tendency.  

Don't just try to give your child the right answers. Lead them to smart conclusions by offering thought-out, open-ended questions.

The Universe we see isn’t exactly the Universe that is. How do we translate? “On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in […]

New word tools can sometimes avoid old confusions. Let’s use “praxotype,” “cognotype,” and “technomorphic” to see human nature more accurately. Especially to see that we’re the least genetically constrained species ever.

Economist Thomas Piketty delves into several common misconceptions about free market economics and argues that strong public institutions are necessary for market regulation.

Modern technology has provided us with a seamless way of life, but we've also become accustomed to taking shortcuts.

Art, music, and gym are always the first to go when school administrators seek cuts, yet a child's physical well-being is just as important to society as his or her intellectual skills.

Computer science curriculum must be adopted by K-12 schools in order to increase diversity in the tech sector.

Microsoft Director of Search Stefan Weitz explains that the future of machine learning consists of teaching artificial intelligence to identify and patterns.

For every good deed, people feel they have license to do a little bad. For shoppers who bring reusable bags, that may just mean some extra chips in the shopping cart.

Scientists running the world's biggest physics experiment will soon begin trials that will test for the presence of alternate universes existing in different dimensions of hyperspace.

Few American cultural institutions stared as deep into the yawning, austerity-driven abyss of large-scale deaccessioning as The Detroit Institute of Arts. When the City of Detroit declared bankruptcy in 2013, vulturous creditors circled the DIA’s collection, estimated worth (depending on the estimator) of $400 million to over $800 million. Some experts see signs of a Detroit comeback, however, but one very visible sign is the new DIA exhibition Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit, a showcase of the city’s ties to Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as well as a tribute to Kahlo’s and Rivera’s own artistic comebacks. Few exhibitions truly capture the spirit of a city at a critical moment in its history, but Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit is a show of comebacks that will have you coming back for more.

If you're learning, you're being taught, no matter who is doing the teaching or where the lesson is taking place (and conversely, if you're not learning, you're not being taught).