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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
5mins
People rarely question their own moral compass. But do you know what shapes yours?
John Templeton Foundation
In "Off the Edge", journalist Kelly Weill dives down the strange rabbit hole of the flat-Earther community.
Online Shinto communities have existed since the birth of the internet as we know it.
A lot of research assumes happiness is measured by comfort and material conditions. For Aristotle, it is about being the best we can be.
In theory, history is the sum of everything that ever happened; in practice, it’s a story we tell ourselves to make sense of and justify our actions in the present.
Is the multiverse real? It's one of the hottest questions in all of theoretical physics. We invited two astrophysicists to join the debate.
One particular revolution was so important, that at least one historian thinks the 20th century officially began in 1914 and ended in 1991.
Using the Book of Mormon as a sacred but ambiguous atlas, the Latter-day Saints have been looking for the lost city of Zarahemla for decades.
This century alone has already had a couple of Onesdays (1/11/11 and 11/11/11).
Many animals practice what looks like self-medication. A new report suggests that chimps tend wounds with insects, often treating each other.
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?
Painkillers have nasty side effects, such as organ damage or addiction. Researchers have discovered a new drug that may cause none of these.
After it became clear that the world wasn't 6,000 years old, some proposed that northern peoples had emerged independently from others.
Lake Baikal holds nearly one-fourth of Earth's fresh surface water and is the most scientifically interesting lake on our planet.
With 1550 distinct type Ia supernovae measured across ~10 billion years of cosmic time, the Pantheon+ data set reveals our Universe.
We value human life in a way that assumes we possess a sacred something not found in beings like lambs, turkeys, or mosquitoes.
7mins
It’s not a glitch in the matrix. It’s not the Mandela effect. There’s actually a scientific reason you remember things wrong.
The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.
Thich Nhat Hanh, the late Vietnamese monk, thought walking could be a profound contemplative practice.