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Spirituality plays a different ballgame than science, so the language used in either of them doesn't often match up to the other side. This, says religious teacher Rob Bell, creates a lot of conflicts.
Depends on how you define it: Digging in to the science of what it means to be cool.
Even with nothing new falling into it, our radius is increasing with every second that goes by. It’s no big secret that galaxies grow over time. The force of gravity is […]
Instead of beating adversaries in games, we might learn more about intelligence if we tried to teach artificial agents to play together as we do: as paladins and elf rangers.
Facebook’s actions – or inactions – facilitated breaches of privacy and human rights associated with democratic governance. rnrn
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is one of the latest public figures to join the #DeleteFacebook movement over concerns on how the social media platform handles user data.
Does your kid ask “Why” all the time? Do you want to help them search for answers to the big questions but don't know how? Here are a few ways to encourage your little philosopher.
The concept of non-action might just be the most powerful action to take for curbing anxiety.
One of the latest things that has people all abuzz is the claim that Buzz Aldrin saw “an L-shaped object” when he went to the moon.rn
Those recent tax breaks for the extremely wealthy might just have a new place to be spent.
NGC 1052-DF2 was said to ‘defy theory,’ incorrectly, by many. Here’s what our current theories actually predict. Last week, astronomers announced the discovery of NGC 1052-DF2: a galaxy without dark matter. […]
7mins
Creative and original thinking takes both patience and practice. Because your brain is actively trying to fight it.
What do pizza, heavy metal, and farts have in common? They're all in our random fact roundup!
New research from UC Davis shows forty volunteers still experiencing cognitive gains seven years after an intensive retreat.
The Chinese government just banned the online sale of Bibles, yet another attempt at President Xi's suppression of Christianity.
In the middle of the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting controversy, the Facebook founder has been erasing his private chats from Facebook servers. So why isn't this an option for anyone else?
The study’s results have implications for marketers as well.
8mins
At the dawn of the AI era, where decisions made now could affect the future of mankind, regulation over tech giants is needed now more than ever.
Though conventional wisdom suggests that birth order influences personality, newer research says this isn’t true. What is true is how powerful an effort to remain close to our brothers and sisters as we grow up can be.
A recent study points to the possibility that just 70,000 years ago, a star passed through our Solar System. How often does this happen, and what are the consequences? We […]