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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
Napoleon Bonaparte was a man of many faces. European historian Michael Broers explains which are featured on the silver screen and why.
Intentions tend to get mangled by overreach in every complex organization — so dial up the charisma and the clarity.
Fantasy, meet statistics: The census comes to Middle-earth!
With the invention of the leap year, the Julian calendar was used worldwide for over 1500 years. Over time, it led only to catastrophe.
Like many of us, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius hated waking up early, but his stoic philosophy always helped him get out of bed.
Millions of people have had a near-death experience, and it often leads them to believe in an afterlife. Does this count as good proof?
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Eastern religion meets Western psychology: meet the Harvard professor who’s also a Zen priest as he explains how to relieve suffering using both faith and neuroscience.
We each have the same 24 hours in the day. How will you spend yours?
A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.
When battles raged in ancient cities, their rocks blazed so brightly that they could be reoriented according to Earth's magnetic field.
How to say, "In many ways, Proust is similar to Joyce" and get away with it.
Omer Bartov, who spent decades studying the unspeakable horrors of genocide, shares how his studies have impacted his own mental health.
The first stars took tens or even hundreds of millions of years to form, and then died in the cosmic blink of an eye. Here's how.
These hard-to-finish books are still worth the effort.
From how life emerged on Earth to why we dream, these unanswered questions continue to perplex scientists.
When you own your career, work becomes more than a means to an end — it becomes a vehicle for growth and happiness.
Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.
A sober look at a wild conspiracy theory that argues the Middle Ages never happened.