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Do you want Facebook or Google to control your legacy?
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As a moral and political philosophy, classical liberalism lays a framework for the good society.
Institute for Humane Studies
And how cutting just $1 billion per year in funding from NASA’s budget would be a catastrophe for science. When you think of the great cosmic beyond and what we know […]
Infidelity, an inherently selfish behavior, has been analyzed by researchers to help us understand why people cheat in relationships.
From understanding human aggression to epigenetics, Stanford University offers all 25 lessons of this fascinating course for free on YouTube.
Tweak the way you're coping and you can lower your anxiety levels.
Being ahead of the curve can be a dangerous place. These 7 thinkers were driven from their homelands over it.
Minnesota earned its 'blue mark' in the 1975 Morris earthquake, which had its epicenter in the western part of the state.
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Budget cuts to pandemic preparedness put us all at risk.
Research dating back to the 1950s explains why the foot fetish makes total sense.
Only one dark matter detection experiment ever gave a positive result, in conflict with all the others. This could be why. For multiple generations now, it’s been apparent to astronomers that […]
Can AI make better predictions about future crimes?
Can reading increase empathy and charitable thinking?
Increasing numbers of seniors need help with basic tasks. It doesn't have to be that way.
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Here's how to have a healthier relationship with politics.
We’ve come fantastically far in our understanding of the distant Universe. Here’s how we’ll go even farther. Sometime in 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will launch, deploy, and begin science […]
Physicist Frank Wilczek proposes new methods of searching for extraterrestrial life.
Global warming has shown that permafrost is not so permanent after all.
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Laws can't stand by themselves. Professor James Stoner explains why.
The origin and phylogeny of the Yaravirus are not yet clear.