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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
There’s really only one mistake you can make: continue doing the same thing you already know is hurting you and expect a different result.
Art isn't a side note in human history; it's the main text.
Medical psychologist Catherine Monk explains how prenatal mental care benefits both mothers and babies.
Wherever automation rises, religiosity falls.
Do you really need a monstrous upbringing to make monsters?
When the average person has a "theory," they're just guessing. But for a scientist, a theory is the pinnacle of what we can achieve.
Nero’s reputation as one of the most malevolent emperors in Roman history might be partly slander.
Life in the supremely vast cosmos is incredibly rare. We need a new vision for our living planet and for ourselves.
If you see life as only a source of suffering and misery, why bring anyone else into that? This belief, called anti-natalism, is on the rise.
"The more I unleash myself from the tethers of domestication, the happier I feel."
According to bushido, your life is of secondary importance to key virtues, like honor, loyalty, and justice.
Despite the vast number of planets in the Universe, Earth's specific evolutionary history guarantees that its life forms — including humans — are utterly unique.
By probing the Universe on atomic scales and smaller, we can reveal the entirety of the Standard Model, and with it, the quantum Universe.
The author of Frankenstein had an obsession with the cemetery and saw love and death as connected.
Predictive power has perverse, anti-democratic consequences. So be a good citizen and lie to election pollsters.
Listening to some songs can cause a powerful physiological response known as "frisson." What is it, and why does it happen?
The first observational evidence showing the Universe is expanding is 100 years old now: in 2023. Here's the story of its 100th anniversary.
Explore how belief shapes destiny, from Oedipus Rex to modern geopolitics.