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The force that has only been seen on the largest cosmic scales affects smaller ones, too. We just need to look well enough. “There are still so many questions to answer. […]
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Eric Paley, Managing Director of Founder Collective, extols the entrepreneurial spirit of Kinsa CEO Inder Singh.
Even when everything sucks, you can still feel thankful. 
Research now says that we all react differently to the same foods. Maybe grabbing that cookie isn't as bad as we thought it was.
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"We shouldn't be in the dark ages about knowing the health situation around us," says Kinsa founder Inder Singh. We mostly are in the dark ages, however, because medicine makers haven't focused on mapping the spread of disease, just stopping its biological causes.
"Life is short; art endures" — As art time capsules proliferate, who is deciding what constitutes art worth saving for later?
Nature versus nurture is back, and this time it's about happiness. Do our behaviors make us happy, or does our brain?
It's extremely difficult for new technologies to also envision the ways we will relate to each other in the future.
ISIS routinely traffics and sells captured women and girls. Is buying them back fueling more terrorism?
As we all still recover from the Paris attacks, remember the beauty and joy of one of the most forgotten French discoveries. “Truth is more valuable if it takes you […]
We really did design the world in our own image. “Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.” –Albert Camus Whenever we […]
The ad has been praised for its inclusivity, but it's more transgressive than that.
And what technology will it take for us to get there? “Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on […]
Climate change will hurt farmers, although not all equally. American farmers won't have it nearly as bad as African ones.
His words give those of us with creative and depressive tendencies hope, perspective, and a sense of camaraderie.
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One turkey. Two types of muscles. Two different temperatures needed to cook properly. Put away the roasting pan and get ready to spatchcock the bird.
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Archetypes are dull as ditchwater. The 'Cloud Atlas' author is much fonder of nuance.
Terrorists exploit the “glamor of action movies, video games, and gangsta rap.” Counterterrorist efforts somehow have to counter that glamorization.