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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
Neuroscience is beginning to provide clues about the emergence of human consciousness.
John Templeton Foundation
If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.
Claims of a "loneliness epidemic" aren't based on robust data. Loneliness might be a problem, but it's not worse than it was in the past.
There may be a symmetrical interdependence between order and chaos.
When the Universe was first born, the ingredients necessary for life were nowhere to be found. Only our "lucky stars" enabled our existence.
500 sheep were slaughtered to produce the 2,060 pages of the "Codex Amiatinus," a Latin translation of the Bible.
Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.
Take a hint from Einstein and Mozart — unplug and make peace with some degree of failure.
Some say that the Sun is a green-yellow color, but our human eyes see it as white, or yellow-to-red during sunset. What color is it really?
Rather than sending serial killer art to auctions, it should be sent to abnormal psychologists for research.
"In order to seek truth," Rene Descartes once wrote, "it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, all things."
You can learn a lot about life through literature's most unrespectable and heinous characters.
Let us share this miracle with mothers in poor countries.
Man does not live by measurement alone.
John Templeton Foundation
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
We know that everything changes, but we long for something more permanent.
De-urbanized lifestyles can be aligned with basic Taoist principles — and remote workers are starting to feel the connection.
"The Man in the High Castle" may be the most beloved alternate history book, but it is not the most historically accurate.
We have become the greatest threat to ourselves and to life on this planet. We need a set of agreed-upon safeguards to preserve our future.
In "The History of Western Philosophy," Bertrand Russell made it clear whose thinking he admired — and whose thinking he didn't.