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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
The Te’omim Cave in the Jerusalem Hills is filled with skulls and oil lamps — objects a new study says may have been used in dark rituals.
How the simple act of watching twilight can radically transform our perception of the world and our role within it.
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Psychopathic tendencies may be present to some extent in all of us. New research is reframing this often sensationalized and maligned set of traits and finding some positive twists.
An X-ray offers a glimpse into the painter’s early years.
Giambattista della Porta's contributions to codebreaking changed the course of communication.
Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
Each year in mid-August, Earth plows through the debris stream of an enormous comet, creating the Perseids. 2023's show will be magnificent!
Why does the DMT experience feel so familiar to some people — even those who are trying the psychedelic for the first time?
From the laying out of the body plan to the organization and functioning of our nervous system, cells rule gene expression and make us who and what we are.
A study involving nearly 2,000 people found links between personality traits and the likelihood of moving toward or away from dementia.
There are two types of missing, or "dark" matter: baryonic (made of normal matter) and non-baryonic. Have we finally found the normal stuff?
These initially sympathetic characters take readers down a dark path.
Alchemy had its golden age in the 17th century, when it counted Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle among its adherents.
John Templeton Foundation
A primer on Judith Butler’s theory of gender and performativity.
These clocks burn powdered incense along a pre-measured paths, each representing a different amount of time.
Probability, lacking solid theoretical foundations and burdened with paradoxes, was jokingly called the “theory of misfortune.”
There were many similarities, but also some profound differences.
"I thought strangers knew who I was and were whispering about me as I walked by."
All stars, eventually, run out of fuel and die. Given all the stars we can see and the vast distance to them, are any of them already dead?