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Two figures embrace in the foreground as celestial bodies or stars, evoking supernatural thinking, tumble from a dark sky; in the background, a crowd with raised arms watches in awe.
7mins
"Supernatural thinking is actually an important part of being a complete human being."
John Templeton Foundation
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher who praised a simple life and inspired the worst of the French Revolution.
It’s estimated that one-in-three women and one-in-five men have an episode of major depression by the age of 65.
Music and sounds only seem to reduce pain in mice when played at a specific volume.
Using data collected from ancient civilizations across the world, researchers identified the most significant factors in human development. War came out on top. 
It's common knowledge that syncing your circadian rhythm to a natural light-dark cycle could improve your health and well-being.
More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here's why they're aren't yet off the ground and darting across city skies.
truth bias
2mins
How to see through the lies that surround us.
sleep sound
the human brain remains highly responsive to sound during sleep, but it does not receive feedback from higher order areas — sort of like an orchestra with “the conductor missing.”
Ideas often taken for granted in the United States and Europe about what it means to be a person are, quite simply, not shared with other cultures.
The world is aging, and with age comes vision decline. New research may have found how to improve eyesight in an accessible way.
More humans are being born with a third arm artery, an example of microevolution happening right before our eyes.
4mins
Rituals come as much from religion as they do from the way Earth spins around the Sun.
eagle nebula stars
Even though the leftover glow from the Big Bang creates a bath of radiation at only 2.725 K, some places in the Universe get even colder.
The serotonin theory of depression started to be widely promoted in the 1990s, coinciding with a push to prescribe more SSRIs.
instructional design models
There are dozens of instructional design models, but most learning designers rely on a select few. Here are four of the most common.
From Amazon to the US Army, everybody wants one (or 150).
time dilation
We live in a four-dimensional Universe, where matter and energy curve the fabric of spacetime. But time sure is different from space!
The costs of such an endeavor would be extremely high, while the potential payoffs would be uncertain.