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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
Take a trip through these master-crafted fantasy societies and ask yourself: Could I actually live there?
Extreme home environments — either very supportive or harshly negligent — tend to produce more sensitive kids.
Studies suggest that meditation can quiet the restless brain.
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.
The Church of England is debating if believers should stop using gendered language when talking about God.
Lonely humans will become infatuated with AI-fabricated personas.
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
Unless you confront your theory with what's actually out there in the Universe, you're playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
Would you want to live in any of these places?
The Fermi paradox (along with the subsequent Drake equation) is so difficult that even brilliant thinkers can make little dent in it.
Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
John Templeton Foundation
Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries in all the Universe. Is there some way to avoid "having to live with it?"
Though ultimately incorrect, the ancient Greek philosophers blazed a conceptual trail for humankind to understand the nature of reality.
Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, famed for his work on black holes, claims we've seen evidence from a prior Universe. Only, we haven't.
ChatGPT doesn’t understand physics, but it memorizes very well and puts in extra effort.
Can ChatGPT help you power through writer's block?
If you lost your religion, it might be because the internet and social media are having a secularizing effect on American society.
This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.