Philosophy

Philosophy

Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.

a man and woman holding a newborn baby
Let us share this miracle with mothers in poor countries.
a man with glasses is looking out a window.
Man does not live by measurement alone.
John Templeton Foundation
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The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
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We know that everything changes, but we long for something more permanent.
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De-urbanized lifestyles can be aligned with basic Taoist principles — and remote workers are starting to feel the connection.
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"The Man in the High Castle" may be the most beloved alternate history book, but it is not the most historically accurate.
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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.
a woman's face is shown with a colorful background.
Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.
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These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.
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As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
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As the stream of AI-generated art turns into a deluge, NFTs could become a cornerstone of the Virtual Renaissance.
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Rapamycin is potentially the most powerful anti-aging drug ever discovered. However, due to its unlucky history, few know of it.
Thinking about the problem of meaning is unsettling because it introduces us to a list of solutions that all feel a bit insane.
John Templeton Foundation
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Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?
an image of a star burst in the sky.
What began as an annoyance ended as a Nobel Prize-winning discovery about the Big Bang and the origin of the Universe.
a painting of a group of naked men riding bicycles.
The deep-thinking oddballs of West Coast cycle racing valued mid-ride marijuana over sports science.
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Nobody knows where the word "penguin" comes from.