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There’s an enormous evolutionary advantage for flamingos to stand on one leg, but genetics doesn't help. Only physics explains why.
Digital nomads can fully immerse themselves in their surroundings while advancing their career and stimulating the local economy. But there is one potential downside.
Humans are already so integrated with technology that the dream of transhumanism is a reality. Can we handle what comes next?
Yorkicystis lived during the “Cambrian explosion,” 539 million to 485 million years ago – hundreds of million years before the dinosaurs.
Brands manufacture meaning through consensus; people must strive to create their own.
If argumentation led to nothing, it would soon be thrown into the evolutionary dustbin.
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Kids don’t always make you happier. Here’s why people have them anyway.
John Templeton Foundation
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Branding isn’t buzz — we’ve been doing it for thousands of years.
Yes, there are reasons to worry about Twitter, but it's not about the bots.
Media provocateurs and conspiracy theorists insist that they're "just asking questions." No, they aren’t.
We tend to assume our view of the world is objective and accurate rather than subjective and biased — which is what it really is.
All marbled crayfish descended from a single clone discovered in Heidelberg, Germany in 1995.
"Lac-Phe" grants obese mice the benefits of exercise — without exercising. But don't expect an "exercise pill."
There are billions of potentially inhabited planets in the Milky Way alone. Here's how NASA will at last discover and measure them.
Jokes so cheesy even French philosophers will love them.
Fire-retardant gels and slimes combine the best attributes of water and foam.
A clear alternative has yet to emerge.
"The Soul of a New Machine" provides a rare level of insight into the minds and decisions of humanity's greatest thinkers.
The ancient Maya enjoyed filling their teeth with gemstones. A new study reveals how the procedure was done and how it didn't kill them.
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There are two kinds of suffering. One is pure pain. The other makes life worth living.
John Templeton Foundation