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We've been conditioned to believe that music taste is based on personal preference. But it might just be a lot more complex than that.
Almost every reader will learn from the vast erudition (and biblical proportions) of Steven Pinker's 'Enlightenment Now'. But it's data-lit gospel of progress hides darker biases.
The persistent dream of a “gay utopia” is one of the constants in gay and lesbian historical imaginings over the last 200 years. But is it real?
A new study finds that supposedly healthier standing desks cause physical pain and slow down users’ thinking.
After examining thousands of diabetes patients, researchers in Finland and Sweden identified five distinct categories of diabetes.
AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint have all recently unveiled plans for a nationwide 5G network in the US.
The Nonhuman Rights Project turns to philosophy to persuade courts to honor chimpanzees’ rights.
It's raining penguins!
Distances in the expanding Universe don’t work like you’d expect. Unless, that is, you learn to think like a cosmologist. There are a few fundamental facts about the Universe — its origin, […]
"Global capitalism and local traditions are no longer opposites, they are on the same side," says Slavoj Zizek. The traditions of anti-capitalist protest are upended by this fact.
The reason why reveals a near-universal difference in the academic strengths of each sex.
If mating preferences are biologically predetermined, individual sexism shouldn’t have an impact. But it does.
In a state-of-the-nation speech just weeks before Russia’s presidential election, President Vladimir Putin claimed his country had two new nuclear-powered weapons systems.
Welcome news as the flu pandemic begins to subside.
Investor, advisor and author Tim Ferriss says that often times the smartest questions are the “dumbest” — the ones that no one asks because they are afraid of being shamed. In a […]
LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will not only be the space-based successor to LIGO, but will predict black hole mergers up to years in advance. Across the Universe, innumerable masses […]
It is possible to eat fast food and stay true to the keto diet. Just be wary of eliminating everything from life (and avoid the sauces).
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Could an economic revolution end the depression epidemic?
The findings could help medical professionals better determine the official time of brain death, and might have implications on the protocols for organ donation.
Think you're "post-tribal"? Think again. Attorney and "tiger mom" Amy Chua on groupthink in America and abroad.