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Doomsday prophesies have never once come to pass, but they’ve never had science on their side like this before. Every year, the Earth completes an orbital revolution around the Sun, returning […]
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Todd McLeod, the founder of Greater Commons, has a 12-step plan to transform higher education in the U.S., improve our lives, and improve society.
Lumina Foundation
Just how much do we need to damage the earth before we change our ways?
Russia urges villagers to leave nuclear fallout area and then tells them to come back.
Erik Verlinde has been compared to Einstein for completely rethinking the nature of gravity.
The synthetic chemicals — called PFAS — never break down naturally.
Atheism doesn't offer much beyond non-belief, can secular humanism fill the gaps?
This modern therapy technique has been shown to be effective and easy to learn — could teaching it to students help cut off a growing mental health crisis?
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Silicon Valley started as a Republican stronghold. How did it turn so liberal?
The question is no longer "can we" but "should we" edit human embryos.
Mastering the Art of Sales and Persuasion: Ask the Right Questions to Elevate Motivation with Dan Pink, Author, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us In this lesson, Dan Pink teaches […]
All protons have the same exact mass as every other proton. For particles like the Higgs boson, this isn’t true. One of the most puzzling aspects of quantum physics is how […]
The third in a three-part series on the history of research on the origin of life.
A steady timing reference is required by one of the leading theories of neuronal communication.
It's made from Chernobyl water and rye. What could possibly go wrong?
The true course of progress is not only charted by great men and women, but also by ordinary people having conversations.
Charles Koch Foundation
We think of self-actualization as a lofty goal, but research suggests it may just be another way of obeying our biological programming.