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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
Soviet censorship was thorough yet fallible.
5mins
Geniuses and prodigies are captivating. But generalists rule the world.
John Templeton Foundation
If something exists, it is by definition natural.
But make sure you bring the fossegrim the proper offering—or else.
7mins
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Nurse defines the 5 core principles of life.
Neuroscience is beginning to provide clues about the emergence of human consciousness.
John Templeton Foundation
If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.
Claims of a "loneliness epidemic" aren't based on robust data. Loneliness might be a problem, but it's not worse than it was in the past.
There may be a symmetrical interdependence between order and chaos.
When the Universe was first born, the ingredients necessary for life were nowhere to be found. Only our "lucky stars" enabled our existence.
500 sheep were slaughtered to produce the 2,060 pages of the "Codex Amiatinus," a Latin translation of the Bible.
Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.
Take a hint from Einstein and Mozart — unplug and make peace with some degree of failure.
Some say that the Sun is a green-yellow color, but our human eyes see it as white, or yellow-to-red during sunset. What color is it really?
Rather than sending serial killer art to auctions, it should be sent to abnormal psychologists for research.
"In order to seek truth," Rene Descartes once wrote, "it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, all things."
You can learn a lot about life through literature's most unrespectable and heinous characters.
6mins
Aimless wandering is essential for understanding yourself. Here’s why.
Let us share this miracle with mothers in poor countries.
Man does not live by measurement alone.
John Templeton Foundation