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Sam Harris describes the properties of consciousness and how mindfulness practices of all stripes can be used to transcend one's ego.
What does equality mean when it comes to birth control?
Consciousness is what it's like and how it feels to be you. Thus, consciousness exists in a realm of irreducible subjectivity with which science isn't always comfortable.
Not many art galleries would let you inside wearing nothing but a swimsuit. Visiting the Molinere Underwater Sculpture Garden almost necessitates it. The work of a group of artists headlined […]
At the bottom of the teapot in Sagittarius, the ancient giants burn for your pleasure. Image credit: REU program / NOAO / AURA / NSF. “I told my father that […]
Wolfgang Tillmans' "playback room" will provide a superior listening experience while treating pop music with the same regard as other pieces of art.
According to a new study, people living in more liberal countries are happier than people in more conservative countries; but paradoxically, people who consider themselves to be liberal are less happy than people who think of themselves as conservative, regardless of where they live. Why?
It's easy to forget that college athletes who sustain concussions are often kept out of the classroom as well as off the field. The effects of any sort of traumatic brain injury can pose critical and lasting risks to a student's academic career.
An animal becomes so much more the instant you first love them. Image credit: me, of my first dog, Cordelia, back in 2008. “Dogs are our link to paradise. They […]
It's never too late to learn a new language. In fact, it's probably most beneficial to do so later in life.
Job interviews are a two-way street. Be sure to assess the company while the hiring manager assesses you.
Professional skateboarder Chris Cole explains how the sport channels a unique form of creativity that also contributes to the industry's success as a whole.
"As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth — whatever the truth may be — that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life."
The English writer Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797) is best known for her early feminist treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1792. Two years earlier, Wollstonecraft […]
The above quote is pulled from Virginia Woolf's (1882-1941) long-form narrative essay A Room of One's Own, which was first published in 1929. Room is one of the English writer's many […]
Sir William Beveridge (1879-1963) was a British economist and social reformer best known for his 1942 report titled "Social and Allied Services" (PDF), though often simply referred to as the […]
People who leave comments in online forums to deliberately provoke angry and emotional reactions from others are not much nicer in real life, according to a study published in the journal Identity and Personal Differences.
Exerting self-control often means coping with emotions that tell us to indulge, feel melancholy, or focus on the negative.
The creators of Minecraft, for example, a game in which complex structures are built out of simple cubes, have created an educational version of the software.
Should Scotland become an independent nation next Thursday, how the event will affect the nation's whisky business depends on which side of the political campaign you ask.