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It depends on how you define it.
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Treating “oniomania” or compulsive buying disorder is about protecting your finances as well as your mental health.
Million Stories
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There are three barriers we need to overcome to have better, more productive arguments.
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Science isn't synonymous with technology; it's about a way of thinking.
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The double-slit experiment, hundreds of years after it was first performed, still holds the key mystery at the heart of quantum physics.
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Chess could perhaps be the ultimate window through which we might see how our mental powers shift during our lives.
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For many years, some cosmologists embraced the idea of an eternal, steady state universe. But science triumphed over philosophical prejudice.
learner engagement
There are several different types of learner engagement, from emotional to cognitive. Here's how to improve each.
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Delay the instant gratification of online knowledge and first seek out the wisdom within yourself.
quantum superposition
With a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know.
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Frozen adversity set the stage for an explosion of diversity.
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Unmasking a "convenient untruth" in U.S. politics.
In 1903, a Vermont doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. It took him 63 days, $8,000, and 600 gallons of gas.
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge" is often taken to mean that your conceptions outweigh what's real. That's not what he said.
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The moths in your garden might hear your tomato plant's pain.
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The puzzle of play The purpose of play — for children, monkeys, rats or meerkats — has proved surprisingly hard to pin down. Scientists continue to toss around ideas.