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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
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Financial expert Paula Pant explains how you can afford anything, but not everything.
All across the Universe, planets come in a wide variety of sizes, masses, compositions, and temperatures. And most have rain and snow.
By exposing people to small doses of misinformation and encouraging them to develop resistance strategies, "prebunking" can fight fake news.
Late-night shows, developed during the "golden age" of TV, are no longer as relevant in the age of streaming services and Donald Trump.
"Oosouji" or "big cleaning" is much more than a chance to tidy up.
Recent discoveries about bodily awareness have changed how scientists think about the nature of consciousness.
The Knights Templar were not only skilled fighters, but also clever bankers who played a crucial role in the development of Europe’s financial systems.
Many have argued that morals are relative, but Russia's war crimes reveal the hollowness of that belief. Morality is universal and objective.
Maybe our understanding of quantum entanglement is incomplete, or maybe there is something fundamentally unique about consciousness.
Many Americans aren't rejecting spirituality, just practicing it differently.
We don’t understand why loneliness is bad for us if all we can say is that it hurts.
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Debates about the existence of free will traditionally have been fought by two competing camps: those who believe in free will and those who don’t because they believe the Universe […]
Science is for everyone, even those possessing strongly held beliefs that seem to conflict with the best available evidence.
Marcus Tullius Cicero is widely regarded as one of the most gifted orators in human history. His writings can teach us a lot about the lost art of public speaking.
Your mentors made time for you. Now, go and make time for others.
Rushdie was heavily criticized by figures across the political spectrum for being offensive. People tried to “cancel” Rushdie long before that term was invented.
Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?
In the future, people may look back with horror at how humans treated AI in the 21st century.
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Jimena Canales shares the “demons” that shaped computer science.