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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
His greatest speeches were loaded with empathy.
These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.
As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
As the stream of AI-generated art turns into a deluge, NFTs could become a cornerstone of the Virtual Renaissance.
Rapamycin is potentially the most powerful anti-aging drug ever discovered. However, due to its unlucky history, few know of it.
Thinking about the problem of meaning is unsettling because it introduces us to a list of solutions that all feel a bit insane.
John Templeton Foundation
I think, therefore I am (rich).
Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?
What began as an annoyance ended as a Nobel Prize-winning discovery about the Big Bang and the origin of the Universe.
The deep-thinking oddballs of West Coast cycle racing valued mid-ride marijuana over sports science.
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Asking the wrong questions can hold you back. Natalie Nixon explains how to ask divergent questions to become a great thinker.
Nobody knows where the word "penguin" comes from.
Piano Sonata No. 23 offers a window into the way culture became an instrument of Soviet state policy.
The conservation of energy is one of the most fundamental laws governing our reality. But in the expanding Universe, that's just not true.
Not every classic enjoyed rave reviews from the start.
It's not about fairness. It's about using every possible advantage.
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Humans, like animals, are driven by instincts. But we also have wants. Here’s what that means for our lives.
These high-mass, rapidly star-forming galaxies have called modern cosmology into question. But hi-res simulations show no tension at all.
Far from being a “dead” pursuit that focuses on old ideas, modern philosophy proposes and debates important, new concepts. All of us can learn from it.
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Why do the worst people rise to power? University College London professor Brian Klaas responds.