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Might microdosing LSD and psilocybin be a safe, effective way to treat depression and other disorders?
Can you make solar power work when the sun goes down? You can, and Dubai is about to run a city that way.
New research at Carnegie Mellon University suggests a game of musical chairs.
Vitamins do work — when eaten in whole foods, not pills.
Beyond the oceans boiling and the death of our Sun, Earth’s ultimate fate won’t be determined until far in the distant future. It took the Universe 13.8 billion years to create […]
What does the power of the online mob hold for tyranny and conformity?
The film becomes the story of the making of the film. From his Monty Python days to now, Don Quixote is a metaphor for Terry Gilliam's whole career, and for his 30 year project of making a film about a film about the knight of the woeful countenance. We talk about Muppets, time, and basically everything else two humans can talk about.
Sometimes, the simplest questions of all are the most difficult to meaningfully answer. If you were to take any tiny piece of matter in our known Universe and break it […]
Unlike much of the United States, the South has a culture of honor. While this makes Southerners more polite, it's also something of a double-edged sword.
He reminds us that meaning is wherever we choose to look.
When the Universe gives us clues, we ignore them at our own peril. When you approach the world scientifically, you seek to gain knowledge about how it works by asking it […]
"We inject one tumor and we see all of the other tumors just melt away."
A long-ridiculed theory about humankind's early leap of consciousness is revived.