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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
"Even with my training, I still got insights from the book’s descriptions. That’s how good Carroll is at explaining physics."
From Aristotle's lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant's "scientific" racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
Urban legends help personify the anxieties that arise from living in a modern city.
Do we still remember what we learned in the 1940s?
How many tins of beans make a stockpile, and when does a basement become a bunker?
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.
5mins
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.
4mins
TOPGUN fighter pilot Guy Snodgrass shares his 3 key leadership lessons from the cockpit.
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.