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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
The Universe gravitates so that normal matter and General Relativity alone can't explain it. Here's why dark matter beats modified gravity.
It's literally the one and only trick that separates top-notch physicists from crackpots, dropouts, and those who can't cut the mustard.
Unfortunately, the Lunar Ark project is an idea more at home in science fiction than science fact.
We are tearing ourselves apart over gender issues, with the result that the problems of boys and men are left untreated.
After 70 years, "The Power of Positive Thinking" remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.
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Don’t take the prodigy pathway. Become a broad thinker instead.
Holograms preserve all of an object's 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
What if your best friend was an informant?
Between 30% and 50% of the US population says they believe in ghosts.
Living is about staying busy.
The acceptance of fashionable nonsense is a threat to Enlightenment values and public health.
Even after a decade of hormone therapy, trans women are stronger and faster than cis women.
It might seem petty and shallow to get upset over a bad gift, but there's often a deeper reason behind the feeling.
After 10,000 years of civilization, have we figured out what virtue is?
The Universe begins with negligible amounts of angular momentum, which is always conserved. So why do planets, stars, and galaxies all spin?
More than 1,000 years ago, Mesoamerican societies conducted one of history's most interesting experiments in commodity money.
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Many were expecting extremism survivor and free speech advocate Salman Rushdie to take home the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Annie Ernaux beat him to it.
Einstein always loses in the quantum realm.