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Some classic books, like Mark Twain’s "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," remain controversial to this day.
Albert Camus was a Franco-Algerian philosopher with some great insights on the meaning of life, why you should look to this life and not the next, and why suicide is a poor choice.
As Abraham Lincoln famously said, “If you want to test a man’s character, give him power and a plate of cookies.” (Something like that.)
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Find food, have sex, not die. That’s pretty much all we need to do — but why do we make it so complicated?
This beautiful JWST image of Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 has been called a "prelude to a supernova" by NASA. That might be entirely wrong.
Some would say AI is immortal and all-knowing — Godlike, even.
AI helped create films like "Jurassic Park" and "A.I.", so Steven Spielberg and other artists shouldn't worry about losing their jobs.
Be skeptical of a new study questioning the sweetener's safety.
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Sexual attitudes are more man-like than ever. Here’s what that means for women.
It’s far less likely to wander into bizarre lies, emotional rants, and manipulative tangents.
Marburg virus, like its cousin Ebola, causes severe disease, with fatality rates ranging from 22% to 90%.
Instead of giving the 239 suffering families and the public a true story, Netflix exploited a horrifying tragedy to push conspiracy theories.
The jail environment teaches the animals that approaching humans results in a boring and annoying experience.
2023 is an exciting time for the study of quark-gluon plasmas.
At least one of Earth's creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
The simulation hypothesis is fun to talk about, but believing it requires an act of faith.
How can you fit a camel through a needle?
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Everyone commits this rationality error.
If there are three neutrino species, all with different masses, then how is energy conserved when they oscillate from one flavor to another?
About 2.5% of women and 2.2% of men in the U.S. meet the criteria for body dysmorphic disorder.