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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
The nature of civilizational threats has changed in a mere decade.
Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.
Are anti-workers the lazy children of privilege or the brave vanguard of a utopic upheaval?
“The Tao of the wise is to work without effort.”
Queen Calafia seems like she could have sprung from the pages of a modern fantasy novel.
5mins
The formula for rational thinking explained by Steven Pinker.
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would "ER = EPR" mean for our Universe?
About 1 in 5 adults now say they have no religious affiliation, up from 1 in 50 in 1960.
The secret may lie in an old idiom: "Sleep on it."
Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.
6mins
Why marriage is thriving — and dying — in different American classes.
For Nietzsche, a great work of art can either veil the horror of reality or – better yet – help us face it.
The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.
"Of course, the spleen is the biggest organ in the body."
Take a trip through these master-crafted fantasy societies and ask yourself: Could I actually live there?
Extreme home environments — either very supportive or harshly negligent — tend to produce more sensitive kids.
4mins
The $25 card game that unlocks high achieving teams.
Studies suggest that meditation can quiet the restless brain.
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.