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Mansa Musa, perhaps history's richest man, claims he ascended the throne of Mali after his predecessor sailed west and never came back. Could he have made it to the New World?
If our Universe were born a little differently, there wouldn't have been any planets, stars, galaxies, or chemically interesting reactions.
A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.
Perhaps the whole Universe is the result of a vacuum fluctuation, originating from what we could call quantum nothingness.
An emerging leaders program can help organizations harness leaders from the inside. Read on to learn how to design one.
Germans are masters of building cars, cooking brats — and sitting while peeing.
"Superhabitable" planets might be real, but Earth is probably as good as it gets.
Science fiction movies capture a classic human flaw: getting the future mostly wrong.
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Not all conflict is bad. Expert Priya Parker explains how “heat” can be harnessed for good.
Some scientists think we should allow our bodies to more harmlessly live with pathogens until they’re cleared from our systems.
Meditation can put you in a wiser relationship with life.
It’s safe to use your face cream, as long as you aren’t eating it.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
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.
Einstein's most famous equation is E = mc², which describes the rest mass energy inherent to particles. But motion matters for energy, too.
Thomas Edison was on to something...
The replication crisis has debunked many of psychology’s fair-haired hypotheses, but for the marshmallow test, things have only become more interesting.
The Shirky Principle states that "institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."
Soviet censorship was thorough yet fallible.