The Many Worlds Interpretation is just one of a few multiverse hypotheses—but is there a glaring paradox in this popular idea?

Sara Blakely, the inventor of Spanx, literally stared from the bottom. Here's how she built a billion-dollar empire without a single business class.

Faith is absurd — let’s embrace the comedy in that.

Kyle Maynard is a photographer, wrestler, and inspiration machine. Here's how he pursued his passion and helped others along the way.

Bill Nye is the CEO of The Planetary Society, has his own Netflix show, flew on Air Force One with President Obama, and has at least six honorary doctorate degrees. But there's one thing that makes him prouder than all that combined.

This 25-minute learning technique is one of the simplest in the world. It's also one of the most effective, says professor of engineering Barbara Oakley.

AI is short for more than just 'Artificial Intelligence'. At this crucial stage in its design, we have to decide whether we want it to merely serve us, or to challenge and augment our many selves.

Users don't need better media literacy to beat fake news. We need social media to be frank about its commercial interests.

A religious person without a sense of humor? That's a dangerous combination.

If you want to know the state of equality in the US, statistics are a good place to start.

Life is a temporary, cosmic accident and the universe may very well be meaningless. That's depressing — or is it?

Job automation will need to strike a delicate balance — we want enough to make our lives more comfortable, but no more than that.rn

No human gets everything they want in life, as Ariel Levy discovered in the worst possible way.

The story of the world's most successful people is really only half told.

Cut funding to the NEA and PBS? It would be incredibly costly to cut cultural spending.

What's it like to be a minority in America? To find out, read a book written by one.

Skepticism has a place, but it's optimists who decide the future, says Kevin Kelly.

Science makes the heart grow fonder. Want proof? Just watch Bill Nye as he remembers time spent with the legendary cosmologist Carl Sagan.

In what Tristan Harris calls a "race to the bottom of the brain stem," media companies and advertisers will do almost anything to keep your eyes locked where they want them.

When the president gets his primary information from talking heads on cable TV rather than intelligence briefings, we have a problem.