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Is true equality achievable — or even desirable? Go on a journey through the strange and unsettling "Land of Justice."
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A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
There’s really only one mistake you can make: continue doing the same thing you already know is hurting you and expect a different result.
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Do humans share one consciousness? This psychologist says yes.
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Our one-size-fits-all approach to sex education hasn't worked for a long time. Sex educator Emily Nagoski explains what we know (and don't know) about the role neurodiversity plays in intimacy.
American students are being compelled to specialize earlier and earlier. Here's what it takes to build a successful physics foundation.
Art isn't a side note in human history; it's the main text.
Never mind.
Medical psychologist Catherine Monk explains how prenatal mental care benefits both mothers and babies.
Being a good leader requires emotional capital, which is one reason why many bosses are so bad at it.
A clock, designed and built in Europe, ran hopelessly at the wrong rate when brought to America. The physics of gravity explains why.
In the 1960s, politicians and bureaucrats were formulating the Central Arizona Project. Citizens fought back.
The polymath used science to elevate his art.
Millennials — who were raised to expect unlimited success but found only disappointment — can be drawn to manifestation.
Positron emission tomography (PET) scans use positrons — the antimatter equivalent of an electron — to locate cancer in the body.
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“You’re not punished for failing, you’re punished for not trying.” Former Uber exec Emil Michael on how to truly achieve success.
Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can't? No. But if they can calculate faster, that's quantum supremacy.
Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID?
Six authors, six monumental legacies, and a unique thread connecting them: a solitary novel that shines brightly.