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Science fiction movies capture a classic human flaw: getting the future mostly wrong.
5mins
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.
5mins
Geniuses and prodigies are captivating. But generalists rule the world.
John Templeton Foundation
A surprising JWST discovery around Fomalhaut has a different, superior explanation: not a great dust cloud, but a mere background object.
George Orwell got it right: "Never use a long word where a short one will do."
If something exists, it is by definition natural.
The first-of-its-kind approval could change how we think about gene-edited foods.
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Your chronological age and your biological age aren’t the same thing. This ex-Yale professor explains how to tell the difference.
The cycles of life all rely on the dynamism of the Earth's crust.