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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
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.
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.
Music is part of the human experience, which is why some philosophers have written about it. Some had wacky ideas.
In Kannauj, perfumers have been making monsoon-infused mitti attar for centuries.
Can targeted interventions save Americans?
The use of the letter x as an unknown is a relatively modern convention.
We can no longer approach the news as passive consumers.
Ice harvesters once made a living from frozen lakes and ponds, but the work was strenuous and dangerous. Then refrigeration changed everything.
The Schumann resonances are the background hum of the entire planet. But they don't affect humans in any way.
As Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery… consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
How we organize all our digital stuff — from work research to side hustles to family photos — is key to our productivity.
The visible Universe extends 46.1 billion light-years from us, while we've probed scales down to as small as ~10^-19 meters.
Only Caesar lived to tell the tale.
These landscapes — of geographical differences in head shapes — have vanished from acceptable science (and cartography).