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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
Left-handed humans were likelier to get stabbed in the heart.
9mins
Sabine Hossenfelder discusses the physics of… dead grandmothers?
All forms of energy affect the expanding Universe. But if matter and radiation slow the expansion down, how does dark energy speed it up?
How do physicists solve a problem like entropy?
Uncover the high cost of raising a family and discover strategies to make it more manageable and rewarding.
Million Stories
Nagomi helps us find balance in discord by unifying the elements of life while staying true to ourselves.
How does the mind interact with the body? Nobody really knows — but these philosophers ventured an answer.
What do Remus Lupin, Katniss Evergreen, William Wordsworth, and Usain Bolt all have in common?
Journaling helped Marcus Aurelius cultivate the emotional intelligence necessary to steer Rome through turbulent times.
The cosmic microwave background offers clues.
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
One hypothesis: "gossip traps."
5mins
How World War II codebreaker Alan Turing invented modern AI.
It can write 5-minute songs based on short text prompts.
Though Sun Tzu’s "The Art of War" is a classic military treatise, its advice applies to all manner of conflict.
The acceptance of our cosmic loneliness and the rarity of our planet is a wakeup call.
John Templeton Foundation
4mins
People say we are better off than ever. Are they right?
5mins
80% of the world was once polygamous. What happened?
Perhaps we should be searching for “other Mercurys” rather than “other Earths.”
JWST has brought us more distant views of the early Universe than ever before. Is the Big Bang, and all of modern cosmology, in trouble?