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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, Steve Jobs, Elizabeth Holmes – are these celebrity CEOs good for their business?
At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?
Not all stress is created equal.
Fire-breathing dragons may represent chaos and the human impulse to conquer that threat.
Even the dictionary doesn't get the definition right.
Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble.
The concept is so complex that scientists still argue whether it exists or if it is an illusion.
John Templeton Foundation
Remembering Frank Drake, who transformed the search for alien life & extraterrestrial intelligence into a full-fledged scientific endeavor.
Total annihilation is a permanent threat.
Though difficult to watch, films like "Shoah" and "Life of Crime" cover topics that should not be ignored.
Some animals were even assigned their own lawyers.
Catfish taste with their whole bodies – and that’s just one way animals sense the world totally differently than us.
The Greeks were among the first to move beyond “primitive money” and establish an official currency, transforming their trade, government, and even philosophy.
Million Stories
Imagine Flipper trained in the art of espionage.
The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
The last 70 years have taken us farther than the previous 70,000. But can we accomplish more than creating a record saying, "We were here?"
What creates our private, inner universes is still a mystery.
If you can model anything in the Universe with an equation, mathematics is how you get the solution(s). Physics must go a step further.
