A.J. Jacobs looks back at what he learned about religion, himself, and modern American culture during “The Year of Living Biblically.”

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For millennia, diamonds were the hardest known material, but they only rank at #7 on the current list. Can you guess which material is #1?

Barthes is dead — long live the artist.

Long before the search for biosignatures, scientists imagined a cosmos teeming with intelligent life.

"You need to embrace these systems and try out what's going on because if you don't understand it, you really can't hope to help your organization adapt and stay in front of this momentous, world-changing technology."