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Attention is key to solving problems, regulating emotions, and connecting with others. But our minds have evolved to wander — so how do we focus them when required? Neuroscientist Amishi Jha will teach you how to strengthen your attention, reclaim your focus, and live more fully.
Despite all that we've discovered, Earth remains the only planet definitively known to possess life. Here's how to find a second example.
30mins
You can't explain a third dimension to someone living in a two-dimensional world. According to Yale philosopher L.A. Paul, the same is true of life's biggest decisions — you simply can't know what it's like until you're already there.
CERN's Large Hadron Collider superseded Fermilab's TeVatron in 2008, but now nears the end of its run. The ambitious FCC project comes next.
Anxiety feels like a malfunction. Evolutionarily speaking, it's one of your most sophisticated features.
A white rabbit appears up ahead. What do you do?
At and beyond the current frontiers of knowledge, many physicists have strongly held opinions. Can surveys point the way to breakthroughs?
1hr 1mins
David Epstein walks through decades of research exploring why constraints, not freedom, are the engine behind creativity, focus, and breakthrough.
Who do you want to be today?
Feedback only feels high-stakes when you've been saving it up.
America’s first Gilded Age reveals how concentrated economic power erodes democracy and offers a warning as similar forces reemerge today.
21mins
In goal setting, Chris Bailey argues the problem isn't discipline; it's the system itself.
6mins
When we see loneliness as a kind of failure, it becomes damaging. When we see it as information, it becomes actionable. A psychologist, a social health scientist, and a psychiatrist explain.
Unlikely Collaborators
The original idea of the Big Bang was synonymous with a singularity: a point of zero volume. In this Universe, things never got that small.
1hr 9mins
Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi takes us from the quantum realm to the cosmological and out to the multiverse, answering physics’ most profound questions.
Theoretical physics is notorious for wild ideas that seem, at first, to be nonsensical fantasies. That's where the tooth fairy comes in.
Animal-to-human organ transplants promise a future where survival no longer depends on another person’s death.
Vague predictions and post hoc revisions help astrology feel meaningful, even while it fails empirical testing.
Why we shouldn't necessarily outsource our thinking to dead people.