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Research shows how "dark" Brett Martinpersonality traits affect Bitcoin enthusiasm.
Would you want to live in any of these places?
The Fermi paradox (along with the subsequent Drake equation) is so difficult that even brilliant thinkers can make little dent in it.
Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
John Templeton Foundation
Are you a video gaming master? Put it on your résumé.
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Your brain on sex, love, and rejection with biological anthropologist Helen Fisher.
Epigenetic entropy shows that you can’t fully understand cancer without mathematics.
Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries in all the Universe. Is there some way to avoid "having to live with it?"
Money shame is more common than you might think.
Million Stories
Though ultimately incorrect, the ancient Greek philosophers blazed a conceptual trail for humankind to understand the nature of reality.
Gum disease begins in the mouth but spreads to the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis is just one of several diseases linked to poor oral health.
Anyone can have a bad day at work, but not everyone scores this high on narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism.
Protons and neutrons are held together by the strong force: with 3 colors and 3 anticolors. So why are there only 8 gluons, and not 9?
Two populations that are geographically separated today once mated a very long time ago.
With crisis management training, organizations can develop the agility to recover from crises with as little disruption as possible.
How to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory.
Some of them have survived the wilds of space for billions of years.
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Economist Tyler Cowen explains why intelligence is overrated. Here’s what to look for instead.