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Keeping a gratitude journal is good for you on a number of fronts.
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Want to predict someone's next move, or know if someone is telling you a lie? Learn to read body language like a poker pro.
Twitter clarifies whether it would block any world leaders from its platform.
Short-term use isn’t a problem. Long-term use however may come with lots of side effects.
Bitcoin started at $.008, and today is worth over $12,000. What's the deal with other cryptocurrencies? We're here to help. 
This new pill could make it easier for people to stick to the treatment. 
In this video, Malcolm Gladwell, staff writer with The New Yorker magazine and author of four New York Times bestselling books, discusses what separates “geniuses” from the rest. In addition […]
A cosmic controversy is back, and at least one camp — perhaps both — is making an unidentified error. Ever since Hubble first discovered the relationship between a galaxy’s distance and its motion away […]
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From a low-brow adolescent distraction to a sophisticated art form and educational tool, comic books are finally having their moment in the sun.
Kosher butchers must have a steady hand. Their ritual slaughter, shechita, must result in one precise cut severing carotid arteries, jugular veins, vagus nerves, trachea, and esophagus; it has to […]
Mining asteroids might seem like the stuff of science fiction, but there are companies and a few governments already working hard to make it real. 
A theory proposes that the universe is not speeding up in its expansion but that time is actually slowing down.
Developing an effective learning culture—one in which employees are continuously learning new things and applying those lessons to their work—is one of the most important tasks for any modern organization.
Everybody seems to be making money on bitcoin and other cryptocurrency, but not many people grasp how the underlying technology works. Bitcoin is now traded on the exchanges for futures contracts. Is this problematic for amateur day traders that may not understand how bitcoin works?
From communication to intimacy, this data visual has it all covered.
Debunking the myth that Enlightenment-era pastors opposed modern science.
In his latest book, Fantasyland, Kurt Andersen covers the first five hundreds years of American magical thinking. 
Even underground, there would still be a helicopter hovering overhead