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Setting goals might be easy, but sticking to them? That's when it gets tough.
The quality and duration of your nightly ritual helps define who you are.
We're putting the "care" back into "healthcare."
 After his breakout performance as Breaking Bad’s Walter White — and after playing dad Hal in Malcolm in the Middle — it might seem that Bryan Cranston’s always been as […]
Everything on Earth is made of atoms and their building blocks. Without this one rule, they’d never make anything interesting. Take a look around you at everything on Earth. If […]
When approached with wonder and awe, science is full of divine fingerprints.
If virtue is insufficient temptation, then the internet makes sure we are never lacking.
A new first-of-its-kind study puts a number on how political lobbyists can change the course of climate policy.
A sobering look at the prospects for kids not wealthy enough to fail upward.
Medical science finally acknowledges what workers have known for years.
The world's always been changing, but it feels like it's never changed so quickly as it does now. What life skills will that render obsolete?
Nontraditional education options are on the rise.
Imagine how different our understanding of the Universe would be if we saw nothing beyond the Milky Way. Our corner of the Universe was gifted with a plethora of bright, nearby […]
Although longer lifespans are widespread, they are not a given.
For all the women in the world who never got the apology they needed, and all the men who haven't found the words, and above all for herself, Eve Ensler (THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES) wrote THE APOLOGY. In this searing, unflinching, often surprisingly funny conversation we talk about trauma, compassion, and what it means to apologize for real.
Forget the speed of light or the electron’s charge. This is the physical constant that really matters. Why is our Universe the way it is, and not some other way? There […]
IT has been one of the fastest growing and most lucrative industries for a long time. But is that going to be true in the future?