Outer space begins just over 100 kilometers up, but what we can see extends for billions of light-years. Here's what all of it looks like.

Reading isn’t just writing prep; together, reading and writing help writers think and generate original ideas through extended cognition.

"The process of systematizing, correcting errors, finding approximations, and making them work as civil systems that was what really drove me to start looking at human calculation and what was the foundation that it laid for the modern computer age."

Even in an expanding Universe, we expect both redshifted and blueshifted galaxies. But nearly every one we see is redshifted. Here's why.

Labels help your brain make sense of a complex world, but when self-attached, those same labels can convince you that you're unable to grow.

Today, nostalgia is somewhat kitsch. Back then, it was something to be feared.

"It's this modern idea of doing voluntary discretionary, physical activity for the sake of health and fitness."