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“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.”
John Templeton Foundation
Who’s afraid of utopia? AI doubters have cold feet. History can warm them.
Impossible standards and poor self-understanding are making us miserable.
We don't know what causes Miyake events, but these great surges of energy can help us understand the past — while posing a threat to our future.
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Johns Hopkins professor Dr. Matthew Johnson answers 24 huge questions about psychedelics.
If you think you know what sex, gender, and "the right thing to do" for trans youth and adults are, be sure it agrees with actual science.
Tardigrades can completely dehydrate and later rehydrate themselves, a survival trick that scientists are harnessing to preserve medicines in hot temperatures.
We will have a better shot at improving our lives once we come to understand, know, and love the people we will one day become.
It's a useful fiction — but it's still fiction.
Before Rome was an empire, it was a republic. And before it was a republic, it was a kingdom ruled by seven mythical kings — some better than others.
Exoplanet LP 791-18d is likely to have an atmosphere and liquid water.
Energy balance is the greatest arbiter of weight gain. Embrace the "oinker diet."
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Sex, gender, and the debate over identity explained by Berkeley professor Judith Butler.
Just by observing the tiny amount of deuterium left over from the Big Bang, we can determine that dark matter and dark energy must exist.
“Uitwaaien” is a popular activity around Amsterdam—one believed to have important psychological benefits.
There is no such thing as a void in the Universe.
To gain its full value, L&D leaders must be open to challenging assumptions about how they approach on-the-job training.
Reject your Mental Map Oversimplifications.
In an age of high quit rates, struggling low-wage employees, and tone-deaf leadership, the call for “good jobs” makes great sense.
When Einstein gave General Relativity to the world, he included an extraneous cosmological constant. How did his 'biggest blunder' occur?