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Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.
We don’t know when or how music was originally invented, but we can now track its evolution across space and time thanks to the Global Jukebox.
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Can psychedelics solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? A Johns Hopkins professor explains.
We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.
St Nick had a history of teleporting long before needing to reach all the world's children in one night.
There is more consensus on what heaven looks like than hell.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
For the first time in nearly 1500 years, fewer than half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian.
The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer's suggestive simulation.
“My dad asked me if I had been to tutoring and I lied… Then he showed me the tablet."
A recent study reveals how nerve insulation becomes impaired in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
De-extinction, if it is ever possible, will not be simple.
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.
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Pessimism sounds smart. Optimism sounds dumb. Don’t fall for it, says Wired’s Kevin Kelly.
John Templeton Foundation
In an animal study, it blocked the drug from crossing into the brain.
People naturally judge fact from fiction in offline social settings, so why is it so hard online?
Inequality should be measured in terms of the time it takes for us to earn the money to buy the things we need. And everyone is getting wealthier.
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Collective illusions — false assumptions about society that many people share — have existed for thousands of years in many different ways. Today, because of social media and modern technology, […]