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Two-thirds of the achievement gap for American children is due to the "summer learning loss". Here's how we fix that.
Researchers believe they have enough evidence to support the “kelp highway hypothesis.”
One day in 1995, a large, heavy middle-aged man robbed two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight. He didn’t wear a mask or any sort of disguise. And he smiled at […]
And thanks to Alvin Plantinga, they have a rational conversation.
In our modern, increasingly globalized world, organizations both large and small are being tasked with managing ever more diverse workforces. As our understanding of diversity evolves, we see it in […]
Do you know you Hangzhous from your Changzhous?
The differences between what you are and what you could be are stunning. The human body consists of somewhere around 1028particles, all bound together. The typical human has a mass […]
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Religion influences politics more now than it did 50 years ago. Are we going forward or backward?
DEFCON hackers find it’s really easy to hack U.S. voting machines.
Charisma comes down to two things.
Most marriages end in resentment. Why should longevity be the sole marker of a successful marriage?
We know that body language reveals a lot. But language is an even bigger tell if you know what to look for.
This is the oldest fossil ever found belonging to the line that leads to us.
Our empathy is getting better, but universal? No way.
NASA and SETI invite the public to nickname a small icy world, or pair of worlds, in the distant Kuiper Belt ahead of a New Horizons 2019 flyby.
A new study explains why some people seem to be better than others at ridding their minds of intrusive thoughts.
For just a year’s worth of US Military budget, we could transform the world. The United States spends more on military spending than the next ten nations combined: an estimated $600 […]
Wow. Reading Hawking's Ph.D. paper is like listening to Pink Floyd for decades and then suddenly finding out they had a different and even more groundbreaking debut album.
Music is our oldest and most cherished ritual. How we treat it is reflective of who we are.
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The big, unknowable questions in life are seductive, but without small, trivial questions as insulation, those large mysteries can consume us.