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Ethics
Dive into five philosophical schools that have faded into obscurity but still whisper through the ages.
Science and technology were making early modern Europe a better place to live, but at what cost?
There's nothing like the end of the world to make you a philosopher.
In an attempt to prove Christianity inferior to communism, a Soviet scientist hoped to play God.
Get rid of the notion that the best employees come from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
To put things in perspective, the cost of sequencing a single genome in 2012 was around $10,000.
"Conceptual isolation" offers an agreeable solution.
Is true equality achievable — or even desirable? Go on a journey through the strange and unsettling "Land of Justice."
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If you see life as only a source of suffering and misery, why bring anyone else into that? This belief, called anti-natalism, is on the rise.
Philosophy can focus on some dull topics. Luckily, some thinkers have spent lots of time on the philosophy of sex
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Kelly Richmond Pope, a forensic accountant, shares a simple test that puts your ethics under the spotlight.
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Forensic accountant Kelly Richmond Pope explains how fraud runs rampant — even when businesses don’t intend it.
The debate goes back at least 400 years.
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No, Gandhi did not single-handedly bring about Indian independence. Pacifism alone usually gets you killed.
A philosophical debate spanning creation, free will, and a sneaky teapot.
Dante’s epic journey through hell and heaven reveal how the poet felt about his own country.
A proponent of panpsychism argues moral truth is inherent in consciousness.
In history, every major technological advance has been used, for good and bad.
After Albert Einstein’s death in 1955, a pathologist—searching for the secret of genius—removed, dissected, and ultimately stole the mathematician’s brain.
Numerous videos online show that squid undergo a dramatic color-changing effect after being stunned or killed.
A team of scientists has warned that marketers seek to advertise in our dreams. Will our sleep be commercialized against our wishes?
Diogenes engaged in shocking behavior to demonstrate the contradictions, small-mindedness, and sheer absurdity of prevailing social conventions.
From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s "Dune," science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.
Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
Does humanity have a moral imperative to seed life on lifeless worlds? And should we avoid colonizing a planet if life already exists there?
Within a month of that initial conversation, Peter Singer became a vegetarian.
The first-of-its-kind approval could change how we think about gene-edited foods.
If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.
Rather than sending serial killer art to auctions, it should be sent to abnormal psychologists for research.
You can learn a lot about life through literature's most unrespectable and heinous characters.