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Taking time for thoughtful consideration has fallen out of fashion, writes Emily Chamlee-Wright. How can we restore good faith and good judgement to our increasingly polarized conversations?
Institute for Humane Studies
We've known this virus was coming. We just didn't do anything about it.
What factors explain the gender pay gap?
'The Broad and Narrow Way' helped 19th-century preachers explain the consequences of virtue and vice.
Hawking radiation should really be happening, but black holes are farther from decaying than ever before. Black holes are, in many ways, the most extreme objects that will ever exist in […]
Researchers observed "inter-brain coherence" (IBC) — a synchronisation in brain activity — between a musician and the audience.
Understanding the math behind social distancing.
Sometimes the best way to make changes is when you're in the middle of a challenging time.
New research on ankle exoskeletons show promising results.
It’s not just for Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars. Not even close. Shortly after Earth first formed first formed, life quickly took hold, thriving ever since. Both reflected sunlight on a […]
This video game designer's creations have been said to work "neurological magic."
Americans consume the most toilet paper in the world but it's a very wasteful product to manufacture, according to the numbers.
New study of gamma rays and gravitational lensing points to the possible presence of dark matter.
It isn’t just that mass and energy are equivalent and interchangeable. It tells us something fundamental about mass itself. Of all the equations that we use to describe the Universe, perhaps […]
Playing and being creative shouldn't stop when you grow up.
Amid the panic of the COVID-19 pandemic, are we building the surveillance states of tomorrow?
Astronomers find these five chapters to be a handy way of conceiving the universe's incredibly long lifespan.
A year ago, a puzzling gap existed between black holes and neutron stars. With nearly a year of new data, LIGO solves the puzzle. On Monday, March 16, 2020, astrophysicist Carl […]
From a personal point of view and from an economic point of view, this is nothing short of potentially disastrous for people's livelihoods.