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But make sure you bring the fossegrim the proper offering—or else.
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Sabine Hossenfelder talks about Albert Einstein, dead grandmothers, the physics of aging, and more in this full interview with Big Think.
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7mins
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Nurse defines the 5 core principles of life.
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Neuroscience is beginning to provide clues about the emergence of human consciousness.
John Templeton Foundation
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If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.
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The classic picture of Jupiter's great rocky core might be entirely wrong.
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Raw food, paleo, gluten-free, detox, and ketogenic: All of these diet fads withered when subjected to scientific scrutiny.
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7mins
This network physicist is mapping the world's most significant data to create the most beautiful visualizations of information we have ever seen.
John Templeton Foundation
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Massive objects like black holes, stars, and rogue planets routinely pass near our Solar System. An ensuing comet storm could destroy us.
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The hallucinations that characterize schizophrenia may be due to a "reality threshold" that is lower than it should be.
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Maintain peace of mind during tax season by correctly filling out your W-4.
Million Stories
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A next-generation instrument on a delayed rover may be the key to answering the question of life on Mars.
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Claims of a "loneliness epidemic" aren't based on robust data. Loneliness might be a problem, but it's not worse than it was in the past.
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When the Universe was first born, the ingredients necessary for life were nowhere to be found. Only our "lucky stars" enabled our existence.
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We can reasonably say that we understand the history of the Universe within one-trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. That's not good enough.
Scenario Based Learning
Scenario-based learning makes employees active participants in their own learning process, better preparing them for the real issues they may face at work.
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500 sheep were slaughtered to produce the 2,060 pages of the "Codex Amiatinus," a Latin translation of the Bible.
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Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.