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History & Society
Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
It's the best-known transcendental number of all-time, and March 14 (3/14 in many countries) is the perfect time to celebrate Pi (π) Day!
Virtually anyone can now create convincing deepfakes. That doesn't mean you should.
The nature of civilizational threats has changed in a mere decade.
1hr 34mins
Master creative thinking in 90 minutes, with expert Tiago Forte.
Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.
Quelle horreur! Paris isn't just a 15-minute city; it's a five-minute city.
Are anti-workers the lazy children of privilege or the brave vanguard of a utopic upheaval?
“The Tao of the wise is to work without effort.”
“Like real dreams, it does not explain, does not complete its sequences," film critic Roger Ebert once wrote about "Mulholland Drive."
5mins
The formula for rational thinking explained by Steven Pinker.
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would "ER = EPR" mean for our Universe?
About 1 in 5 adults now say they have no religious affiliation, up from 1 in 50 in 1960.
The 1,200-year-old "Book of Ingenious Devices" contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.
6mins
Why marriage is thriving — and dying — in different American classes.
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
The state of global democracy is relatively strong — but there are clear signs of recent erosion.
This is your brain on work.
The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.