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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
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Can psychedelics solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? A Johns Hopkins professor explains.
We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.
St Nick had a history of teleporting long before needing to reach all the world's children in one night.
There is more consensus on what heaven looks like than hell.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
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Pessimism sounds smart. Optimism sounds dumb. Don’t fall for it, says Wired’s Kevin Kelly.
John Templeton Foundation
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Collective illusions — false assumptions about society that many people share — have existed for thousands of years in many different ways. Today, because of social media and modern technology, […]
Find your wallet or keys — or a nuclear submarine.
Climate activists' brand of iconoclasm is far removed from the Beeldenstorm that swept medieval Europe.
"Tristram Shandy" trolled its way to fame.
Virtually all the statistical methods researchers commonly use assume potential mating partners decide who they will have children with based on a roll of the dice.
Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.
We'll never be able to extract any information about what's inside a black hole's event horizon. Here's why a singularity is inevitable.
Surely they can't be worse…can they?
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We don’t need one Elon Musk. We need 8 billion empathic futurists.
Mahāyāna is the most popular type of Buddhism in the world today.
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Bo Seo, Harvard’s former debate coach, explains a good argument.
There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.