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If you're lacking confidence and feel like you could benefit from an ego boost, try writing your life story.
A space memorial company plans to launch the ashes of "Pikachu," a well-loved Tabby, into space.
 Angie McArthur, CEO of Professional Thinking Partners and the co-author of Collaborative Intelligence, talks about keeping a relationship “clean.” She’s talking about dealing with misunderstandings before they have a chance […]
Red, green, and blue? What we call ‘color charge’ is far more interesting than that. At a fundamental level, reality is determined by only two properties of our Universe: the quanta […]
You can't do pure science independent of human experience.
The team caught a glimpse of a process that takes 18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.
Two new reports highlight the stark realities of the modern workforce.
A scientific look into a ubiquitous phenomenon.
Psychopaths are manipulative, violent, impulsive, and lack empathy — but if psychopathy encourages more frequent reproduction, is it, then, an advantageous strategy?
 Negotiating is often a white-knuckle affair, but the stakes are rarely higher than when the FBI is trying to come to terms with a kidnapper. Chris Voss, now CEO of […]
A single thought experiment reveals a paradox. Could quantum gravity be the solution? Sometimes, if you want to understand how nature truly works, you need to break things down to […]
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What happens when a small group gets to decide what is appropriate for everyone?
Institute for Humane Studies
Is consciousness just a showdown between your beliefs and perceptions?
One of the world's deadliest diseases, malaria takes the life of a child every two minutes.
It marks a major shift in the government's battle against the opioid crisis.
The real Game of Thrones might be who best leverages the hit HBO show to shape political narratives.