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“The human skin is a promising conduit for genetic engineering, as it is the largest and most accessible organ.”
The deepest, funniest, strangest moments from the past year of the Think Again podcast. Featuring Kory Stamper, Teju Cole, George Saunders, Slavoj Zizek, Jennifer Doudna, and Timothy Spall.
The deepest, funniest, weirdest moments from the past year of the Think Again podcast. Featuring Daniel Dennett, Sarah Goldhagen, Ian McEwan, Alison Gopnik, Erik Kandel, and Alan Alda.
We're more lonely than ever and this is horrible. Equally horrible? We can't bare to spend time alone.
If you know when, where and how to look, the show will still be spectacular. “My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little […]
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Before you follow another "tip" or "trick," there's something Alan Alda wants you to know.
A new study shows sperm counts have dropped by 59% globally over the last 40 years.
Psychology professor Joseph Ferrari explains how to overcome procrastination.
A new study shows how one dietary change in the U.S. could make a 46%-plus dent in greenhouse gas reductions.
A number of studies presented at the 125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association verify yoga's role in curbing depression.
A new study of 46,034 brain scans suggests women's brains are more active than men's.
Design thinking, or applying the principles of creative design and reasoning to business challenges in a way that focuses on the needs of people, is gaining momentum as the new […]
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How to be media savvy? Sample ideas you disagree with, and be duly skeptical of celebrity journalists.
Lord Martin Rees, a world-leading cosmologist, explains the possibility of multiverse theory. “It's speculative, it's exciting science, and it may be true."
In his book, The Attention Merchants, Tim Wu claims we now worship celebrities like deities. This can lead to all sorts of problems.
All 24 cantons would meet at St Stephen's cathedral in Vienna
Black holes shouldn’t be this big, much less this big so many billions of years ago. Yet here we are. “Ultramassive black holes — that is, black holes with masses exceeding 10 billion […]
Renowned linguist and public intellectual MIT Professor Noam Chomsky offers his take on the Trump administration and its troubles with Russia.
