The cartoon owl wants to have a word.

Many people, now with LLM assistance, regularly claim to discover game-changing revolutions. Scientists don't buy it. You shouldn't either.

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.

A white rabbit appears up ahead. What do you do?

Who do you want to be today?

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.

In physics, we reduce things to their elementary, fundamental components, and build emergent things out of them. That's not the full story.

What the near-death experiences of daffodils can teach us about resilience, death, and becoming someone new.

Optimistic people don’t just “feel happier,” they literally process information differently, at a perceptual level. Three experts explain.

Contrary to common experience, not everything needs a medium to travel through. Overcoming that assumption removes the need for an aether.

A free and happy bird does not pace the room.

Your to-do list isn't a debt to pay off. It's a menu to choose from.

Behavioral scientist Danny Kenny on the simple power of asking, "What is this actually for?"

These initially sympathetic characters take readers down a dark path.

Modern life has confused comfort and stimulation for genuine fulfillment. Could the Ancient Greek distinction between hedonia and eudaimonia help pull us out of this trap?

From landscaped gardens to road systems, the Persians were among the first to create many things we still enjoy today.

For decades, theorists have been cooking up "theories of everything" to explain our Universe. Are all of them completely off-track?

"I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."

A growing movement is trying to turn energy directly into food — reviving an old dream of escaping the violence and inefficiency of eating.