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Over the past week, former employees at Facebook and other companies have revealed how tens of millions of users' data has been harvested and passed along to outside parties.
Whether you are new to the workforce or a corporate executive, you may find yourself in the position of needing to write and present an effective message to a group […]
The 2018 World Happiness Index reveals some surprises and explains why the world's richest country is not one of its happiest.
Even our scientific heroes can’t be right about everything. Let’s learn the lessons that they never did. In the 1960s, a young theoretical physicist named Stephen Hawking rose to prominence as […]
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In 1868, equal protection under the law was granted to every born and naturalized U.S. citizen—no exceptions. That's radical, says Van Jones.
In line with his own ingrained assumptions, the standard ones of Victorian England, Darwin maintained that female inferiority is an inescapable consequence of nature.
Last month, the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons released more than 6,000 prisoners early. The Sentencing Commission reduced their sentences retroactively. And the Senate is considering a bipartisan bill […]
Various studies have found that, on average, belief in God is associated with lower scores on IQ tests.
Sudan leaves behind only two other northern white rhinos, but artificial reproductive technologies could provide a future for the subspecies.
The history of women being elected to offices of supreme power is short. Here are 10 women who have made the most of that time.
For every planet that orbits a star like our own, there are likely thousands of ‘orphan planets’ wandering the galaxy alone. Here in the Solar System, we can watch our star’s […]
Ten days before he died, Stephen Hawking published a final paper with a way to prove or disprove the multiverse.
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Should kids be on social media? If yes, what are some good rules to have?