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When we fear, we band together, and more readily treat people in other tribes as the enemy.
We need to talk openly about the world we live in because evil thrives on silence and secrecy. I’d go so far as to say that it can’t exist without them.
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And because of it, we can learn about quantum entanglement across a black hole’s event horizon. This article was contributed to Starts With A Bang by Sabine Hossenfelder, whose blog, Backreaction, […]
Those who want to keep Syrian refugees out of the country are succumbing to a classic error of logical reasoning.
The Star Trek actor has some words on invoking Japanese internment camps in the context of the current Syrian refugee conversation.
Many parents in China seek to teach their kids valuable coding skills, and they're not the only ones.
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Renowned medical researcher Dr. Rudolph Tanzi takes you on a tour of the brain, and explains why positive thinking might be the best gift you can give your genes this holiday season.
France is welcoming Syrian refugees, but the U.S. is frightened. Have we forgotten who we are and how we got here?
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Propaganda is nothing new — it's as old as politics itself — but adding the connective power of the Internet to the equation reveals an entirely new level of media that ISIS is all too happy to exploit.
All remaining research chimps will be retired and relocated to sanctuaries.
See it over the coming six weeks, before it disappears and heads out of the Solar System forever. “I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and […]
The U.K. plans to phase out coal power by 2025, but how will renewable energy factor into the equation?
Let the French flag fly on Facebook. It flies for us all. It flies for life.
The Daily Show host put comedy aside to remind us that Paris truly embodied the values of ‘liberté, égalité, fraternité.’
Edward Snowden lists services that will protect your privacy with just a few downloads.
And the method teaches us just how far Pluto is from actual planethood. “Some kind of celestial event. No — no words. No words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent […]
Fear might lead U.S. states to try and close their borders to Syrian refugees, but is that really a productive move?
No national museum captures its country’s greatness as perfectly as Russia’s Hermitage.
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Author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali says she doesn't buy into the major worries about Islamophobia.