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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
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.
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.
Success is about give and take — with a little more give.
"I am an anthropologist, and for years, I have spoken to people who have had these experiences."
John Templeton Foundation
Since its observation discovery in the 1990s, dark energy has been one of science's biggest mysteries. Could black holes be the cause?
When you combine the Uncertainty Principle with Einstein's famous equation, you get a mind-blowing result: Particles can come from nothing.
Are quantum fields real, or are they simply calculational tools? These 3 experiments show that if energy is real, so are quantum fields.
Art criticism is inherently subjective. Still, many critics have tried to make a case for why some of the world’s most celebrated books are in fact terribly written.
In the West, discussions of 20th-century painting are dominated by Warhol and Picasso, but trendsetting artists are found everywhere.