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A skills gap analysis can help an organization prepare for change and become well-equipped to thrive in the future.
"The surface is no longer a record of every impact the moon has ever had, because at some point, impacts were erasing previous impacts."
Proponents of transhumanism make big promises, such as a future in which we upload our minds into a supercomputer. But there is a fatal flaw in this argument: reductionism.
Patients with amygdala damage rejected the widely accepted answer to the infamous "trolley problem," saying that it "hurts too much."
Turning off a gene called “Myc” has a surprising effect in male fruit flies: They start courting other males.
For over three decades, toxic proteins were believed to cause Alzheimer’s disease. However, recent studies suggest it might be metabolic reprogramming.
It might be good for your memory.
Quantum communication offers a surer path to sending an interstellar message, as well as receiving one. But can we do it?
In the 1980s, some wardens started painting their cells with a shade of pink dubbed "Baker-Miller Pink."
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"Supernatural thinking is actually an important part of being a complete human being."
John Templeton Foundation
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher who praised a simple life and inspired the worst of the French Revolution.
It’s estimated that one-in-three women and one-in-five men have an episode of major depression by the age of 65.
Music and sounds only seem to reduce pain in mice when played at a specific volume.
Using data collected from ancient civilizations across the world, researchers identified the most significant factors in human development. War came out on top.
It's common knowledge that syncing your circadian rhythm to a natural light-dark cycle could improve your health and well-being.
More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here's why they're aren't yet off the ground and darting across city skies.
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How to see through the lies that surround us.
the human brain remains highly responsive to sound during sleep, but it does not receive feedback from higher order areas — sort of like an orchestra with “the conductor missing.”
Ideas often taken for granted in the United States and Europe about what it means to be a person are, quite simply, not shared with other cultures.