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Practical philosopher Andrew Taggart talks about what is an excellent human life, what are the first steps to achieving it and what a society without work looks like.
Forget the spectacular explosions we create here on Earth. The Universe outdoes us in every way imaginable. Forget mere chemical reactions; in space, matter-energy conversion creates unprecedentedly powerful explosive events. […]
The heatwave scorching Britain is revealing the outline of ancient buildings – some previously unknown to archaeologists
Looking for a heartbeat? Advances in the MRI field can now show you.
Tech companies claim the gig economy is booming. Data beg to differ.
In 2016, Facebook employees were just 33% female and 2% black; YouTube employees were 30% women and 2% black; Apple employees were 32% women and 9% black; Google employees were 31% women and 2% black.
Author, broadcaster, and financial advisor Alvin Hall posits that since he doesn't fit into the narrowly defined idea of what a financial advisor should look like in the U.S., he fell through the cracks and didn't get a fair chance.
The Medici family had a long and powerful influence in European history for hundreds of years. They were well known for their banking prowess and are synonymous as an unparalleled patron of the arts during the Italian Renaissance.
Senator David Leyonhjelm’s sexist slur on Senator Sarah Hanson-Young during parliamentary debate raises many issues about how women’s credibility can be undermined by implications that they are sexually more active than is deemed “acceptable”.rnrn
Bright pink? Lava? Liquid planets that could hold water? Some far-out planets are truly… out of this world.
The oldest people in our lives frequently shock us with hateful comments about others that seem out of character with the people we always thought they were. What’s going on?
Researchers study wolves in the area contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and what happens when they leave.
"One small step for man" costs a lot of money. Who's going to help pay the bill for the next bout of space exploration?
Many tech companies are introducing student-loan repayment assistance, in order to entice the best talent.
The fear of robots taking over our economy is unfounded. After all, this kind of disruption happens a lot more often, in the historical sense, than you might think.
An even better reason to eschew alpha-male office culture.
There are millions of asteroids in the solar system. A new study might tell us where they came from.
A new study from Harvard Business School finds open-office layouts actually inhibit face-to-face interaction and collaboration.