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Many renowned writers have revelled in the gifts of their non-native tongues.
"Body, breath, awareness…that's your life. Every problem you ever have, every joy you ever have, depends on that." In this week's episode of Think Again, host Jason Gots talks with acclaimed poet and zen teacher Norman Fischer about the imagination as a tool for living a good life.
The farther away they get, the smaller distant galaxies look. But only up to a point, and then they get magnified. Here’s how. Intuitively, we all know that when we see […]
We speak with cosmologist Dan Hooper, and ponder the literal edge of what we know about the Universe. Have you ever wondered what the first moments of our Universe were […]
Life forms on Earth are wildly varied, but scientists discover a single formula that predicts every one's life cycle.
People who score high in "dark triad" personality traits are able to empathize. They'd just rather not.
"They" has taken on a not-so-new meaning lately. This earned it the scrutiny it needed to win.
Facebook's misinformation isn't just a threat to democracy. It's endangering lives.
How can physics on the smallest scales affect what the Universe does on its largest ones? Cosmic inflation holds the answer. On a macroscopic level, the Universe appears to be entirely […]
Going from a solitary teenage protester in front of the Swedish parliament to a global icon in little more than a year certainly merits a distinction.
The Jerezo crater — where Mars 2020 is set to land — could be a good place to find signs of past life on Mars.
Austro-Japanese aristocrat Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi later concentrated on plans for Pan-Europe.
Here’s a formula for chaos: Collect a diverse and volatile group of eccentric comedians and comedy writers, and give them a nearly impossible task with a just-barely-possible deadline. Oh, and […]
The quest for the ultimate vacuum just got taken to the next level thanks to a new technique: the quantum squeezer. One of the most understated frontiers in all of […]
About 21 percent of gamers in the United States are over the age of 50.
"It's just a joke," right?
As much as we say it's not about the clothes, it's still about the clothes.
A review of Matthew Engelke's How to Think Like an Anthropologist.
Even extremely simple configurations in General Relativity cannot be solved exactly. Here’s the science of why. It’s difficult to appreciate how revolutionary of a transformation it is to consider the Universe […]