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"It can truly allow you to see the physical world in ways that were not possible before."
A deadly myth has been manufactured from poor methods and wishful thinking.
1hr 34mins
Master creative thinking in 90 minutes, with expert Tiago Forte.
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Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.
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There's such thing as a healthy sense of pride in oneself and one’s accomplishments.
hypermassive neutron star
Somewhere out there in the Universe is the heaviest neutron star, and elsewhere lies the lightest black hole. Where's the line between them?
A map of Paris depicting access to bakeries, pharmacies, and news agents.
Quelle horreur! Paris isn't just a 15-minute city; it's a five-minute city.
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Frugality can also benefit the environment.
Million Stories
Are anti-workers the lazy children of privilege or the brave vanguard of a utopic upheaval?
Queen Calafia seems like she could have sprung from the pages of a modern fantasy novel.
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“Like real dreams, it does not explain, does not complete its sequences," film critic Roger Ebert once wrote about "Mulholland Drive."
5mins
The formula for rational thinking explained by Steven Pinker.
quantum entanglement qubit ER = EPR
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would "ER = EPR" mean for our Universe?
About 1 in 5 adults now say they have no religious affiliation, up from 1 in 50 in 1960.
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Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that's science fiction.
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The 1,200-year-old "Book of Ingenious Devices" contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.