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But the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope compels us to add, “so far.” Beginning with its 1990 launch, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revolutionized our conception of the Universe. This photo of […]
Monkey King
Journey to the West is rightly considered one of the most influential novels ever written, but the real reason for its success may be its charismatic poster-boy: The Monkey King.
social network wealth
How do you recover after an economic apocalypse? It is not what you know, but who you know.
clouds in earths atmosphere
The atmosphere’s habitable zone is so small, several mountain ranges extend beyond it.
Even with all the recent impacts we've seen, it might be more "foe" than "friend" to us.
How the search for alien life is taking place right here in our own Solar System. If you want to understand the origin of life in the Universe, you have three […]
Asteroid Bennu
Asteroid Bennu is still far more likely to fly right by us than to make impact.
heal trauma
8mins
Conventional psychiatric practices tell us that if we feel bad, take this drug and it will go away. But after years of research with some of the top psychiatric practitioners […]
Rasputin
The peasant turned czarist advisor has come to be known and feared as the devil incarnate, but was he really as demonic as we have been led to believe?
an older woman against a dark background illustrating aging loneliness and regret
"I suddenly woke up one day and thought, you idiot, you are letting your life fade away, you have got to do something."
Kidney voucher
Donate a kidney now, and your loved one will have priority status if they need one later.
Nietzsche
The question of anti-Semitism, Nazism, and a particularly nasty sibling haunted Nietzsche's legacy.
what is trauma
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Trauma happens to everyone, but the way you respond to it determines its impact on your brain and body.
Objective Reality
Objective reality exists, but what can you know about it that isn't subjective. According to some neuroscientists, not much.
The highest-energy particles of all come from space, not human-made colliders. When it comes to the most energetic particle collisions of all, you might think that the Large Hadron Collider […]
10000 steps a day is the same as 7000 for your health
In fact, 10,000 steps a day is just an arbitrary number from an old marketing campaign.
motor planning
A new study upends a long-standing theory on how the brain plans motor actions in uncertain environments.
Is the time crystal really an otherworldly revolution, leveraging quantum computing that will change physics forever?
Mystery of life
Reductionism is a successful way to explain the universe, but it cannot replace experience. This is part of the mystery of life.
Without these two elements, we’re doomed to fail. In this day and age, it’s virtually impossible to have sufficient expertise to figure out what the complete, comprehensive, scientifically validated truth surrounding […]