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A new study shows how increased coffee consumption interacts with the endocannabinoid system, which the body uses to process cannabinoids found in marijuana.
The myths of an inhospitable land. Imposter Syndrome. That feeling when one of your characters unexpectedly murders another. Literary mage Neil Gaiman on the dark arts of fiction and everyday life.
A classic essay defines different ways to disagree, from the worst to the best, with lessons that ring true in our divisive times.
A new startup has a method for preserving a brain’s memories when it’s frozen for future uploading.
The past is gone, the future not yet here, only the present is now. But why does it always flow the way it does for us? Every moment that passes finds […]
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Bryan Cranston reads the 26th Amendment of the U.S. Consitution and reminds Americans not to take their right to vote lightly.
In her enlightening new book, Blue Dreams, Lauren Slater covers the history of psychotropic drugs.
NASA's Twins Study is critical to understanding what happens to the human body after a prolonged period in space.
World class athletes, musicians, and chess masters use a similar technique.
A college degree is still a well-trodden path to relative financial success. Even so, a college degree is no longer a guarantee of a secure job, or of any job at all.
Punishment has been a human universal, because it has been in our evolutionary interests. But those evolutionary impulses are crude guides to how we should deal with offenders in contemporary society.
Although we’ve had compelling evidence of this for decades, the pathogen hypothesis is finally being taken seriously.
Amid an ongoing battle over the retail and grocery delivery market, Walmart has filed a patent for robotic bees that would pollinate crops just like the real insects.
In honor of St. Patrick's day and Women's History Month, we present 10 Irish American women who changed the world in their own way.
It is becoming an increasingly popular trend in Silicon Valley to place failure on a pedestal. According to author Tim Ferriss, the phrase “fail fast, fail forward” has become a […]
A Wikipedia/YouTube "fact checker" relationship is in the works.
One of the three basic circuit elements just got a lot smaller for the very first time, in what promises to be a trillion-dollar breakthrough. In the race for ever-improving […]
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Why are the poorest Americans still sold on the American dream?
There are few more powerful positions than being a Supreme Court justice, yet the female justices are just like other women: talked over by their male colleagues.
You’d be surprised how many bad things happened on the exact same day.