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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
The quiet transfer of human agency in the age of artificial intelligence.
Philosopher Sven Nyholm on reclaiming achievement from the machines.
Ambition. Descent. Wisdom.
The great Chinese philosopher offers a durable and practical blueprint for harmonizing with our work colleagues.
The fundamental building blocks of reality are indivisible: quanta that cannot be split or divided. Our understanding remains incomplete.
What’s in a number? Only a vanishingly small slice of your life, it turns out.
Long after the last star burns out, the Universe will experience its end state: a heat death. Will everything prior then be meaningless?
Science fiction romanticized Mars as a place of adventure and future settlement; science tells a very different story.
Technology, shifting rules, and human ambition push athletes beyond biology’s perceived limits.
Sixty years ago, a little-known philosopher challenged how science understands life. His perspective is finding new relevance in the age of artificial intelligence.
Speculative evolution explores the strange paths natural selection might have taken — and what that means for humans.
Some sci-fi aliens are wildly implausible. Others aren’t so far-fetched.
"Broadly speaking, it's at least plausible, this might be right."
The benefits of mathematical literacy reach far beyond the realm of numbers and equations.
In this excerpt from The Laws of Thought, Tom Griffiths shares how George Boole developed a mathematical theory of logic.
How many stupid acts does it take to make a person stupid?
The "Creativity Pioneers" proving that imagination
is a practical tool for social transformation.
Moleskine Foundation
Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit taught us how to separate good science from the work of charlatans. In 2026, that matters more than ever.
Julius Caesar conquered Gaul but his emotional intelligence was pitiful — and there’s plenty we can learn from his leadership deficiencies.
Writer and media theorist Bogna Konior connects cosmos and computer by reconsidering our eerily silent Universe.