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That's one way to reduce the national debt.
Unions between Muslims and non-Muslims played a huge part in the expansion of Islam.
Can learning about the great white shark help protect us from cancer?
Why do people buy into stories that are clearly lies? Hannah Arendt can help us understand.
Diversity without inclusion is largely pointless. Beyond superficially satisfying some hiring metric, bringing on an employee who has little chance of thriving deprives the company of diversity’s benefit and puts […]
Maslow's highest level on the hierarchy of needs.
It was so well-motivated and compelling. But the particles never appeared. Every so often, an idea comes along in theoretical physics that’s undeniably profound. When a single idea can solve […]
Creativity can bring about unchecked harm, but it's up to us how we wield it.
One flew east, one flew west, eight shrinks flew into the cuckoo's nest.
A revival is occurring, and we sure can use it.
Seemingly small moments of discrimination often pass unnoticed.
The first planet beyond ‘naked eye’ astronomy will pass within just 1° of Mars. Although there are eight major planets in the Solar System, most of us never see Uranus or […]
Two space agencies plan missions to deflect an asteroid.
"I should be as happy as I'm ever going to be right now, but I'm not. Is this it?"
The assumption "that without memory, there can be no self" is wrong, say researchers.
Through calculated use of gossip, women, non-citizens, or slaves wielded a potent weapon against those who wronged them.
Think you've seen sand? You haven't seen sand.
The 8th century AD was a tough time to be a genius from a poor family in China. Poet and novelist Ha Jin on the tortured life of the legendary drunken poet Li Bai. Also: panpsychism, the value of idleness, and humanities education in America today.
You’d be amazed at what you can learn from even one single pixel. Over the past decade, owing largely to NASA’s Kepler mission, our knowledge of planets around star systems beyond […]