In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test, and went on to create one of his own.

A controversial new philosophy paper tries to bring our moral prejudices to heel. Should it?

Thanks to observations of gravitational waves, scientists were able to settle a longstanding debate over the speed of gravity.

Misinformation was extremely popular in 2023, as bad science often made global headlines. Learn the truth behind these 10 dubious stories.

The problem with today’s AI isn’t it thinking for itself; it’s the tech telling humans whatever we want to hear.

These theoretical megastructures represent one way an advanced civilization might harvest energy from stars.

While Taoism can be paradoxical and abstract, it also offers daily life lessons.

Acting "little and often" has huge consequences and they're not always good — but awareness yields solutions.

From "The Castle of Otranto" to "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, these books changed the literary landscape.

Kmele talked with a planetary scientist, a physicist, and a futurist, to understand how visionaries across disciplines are thinking about the future of our planet and humankind.

Narnia and early Middle-earth were pancake-esque — but their creators took differing views on de-globalization.

For generations, physicists have been searching for a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity isn't actually quantum at all?

Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, rock icon Steve Albini, and comedian Fred Armisen told Kmele how they make sense of the world — and leave their mark on it.

Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.

The volcano’s historic eruption preserved an ancient library, but rendered its content illegible. A public competition aims to change that.

The essential element needed for innovation is creative dissonance — and the keys to unlocking it were forged by bankers in Italy.

Consciousness isn’t just a problem for philosophers. On this episode of Dispatches, Kmele sat down with scientists, a mathematician, a spiritual leader, and an entrepreneur, all trying to get to the heart of “the feeling of life itself.”

The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don't physically exist. Is he right?

There are steps we can take to create a new paradigm that will help shift society's attitude towards women in the workplace.

Lockdowns moved the burden of COVID from the at-risk elderly to the less-at-risk young. Does this sacrifice merit compensation?