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Are anti-workers the lazy children of privilege or the brave vanguard of a utopic upheaval?
Queen Calafia seems like she could have sprung from the pages of a modern fantasy novel.
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“Like real dreams, it does not explain, does not complete its sequences," film critic Roger Ebert once wrote about "Mulholland Drive."
quantum entanglement qubit ER = EPR
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would "ER = EPR" mean for our Universe?
About 1 in 5 adults now say they have no religious affiliation, up from 1 in 50 in 1960.
brain organoid
Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that's science fiction.
astrolabe
The 1,200-year-old "Book of Ingenious Devices" contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.
time crystal entangled electron spin
Even with quantum teleportation and the existence of entangled quantum states, faster-than-light communication still remains impossible.
Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.
emotional intelligence training for leaders
Four key components to guide the creation of emotional intelligence training for leaders.
Within the "Dark Triad" of personality traits, narcissism exists on a confidence spectrum.
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.
What if we could harvest energy from human heat, sweat, or vibrations?
yeast cell colony humans
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
Caspar David Friedrich Romanticism
For Nietzsche, a great work of art can either veil the horror of reality or – better yet – help us face it.