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Think via Bayes’ rule to become more rational and less brainwashed.
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What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That old adage roughly sums up the idea of antifragility, a term coined by the statistician and writer Nassim Taleb. The term refers […]
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What do physicists actually mean when they talk about the multiverse?
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Can psychedelics solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? A Johns Hopkins professor explains.
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Pessimism sounds smart. Optimism sounds dumb. Don’t fall for it, says Wired’s Kevin Kelly.
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Collective illusions — false assumptions about society that many people share — have existed for thousands of years in many different ways. Today, because of social media and modern technology, […]
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The real risks of psychedelics, explained by a Johns Hopkins expert.
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This scientist collected thousands of secrets. They all had 3 things in common.
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We don’t need one Elon Musk. We need 8 billion empathic futurists.
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Bo Seo, Harvard’s former debate coach, explains a good argument.
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Stress shrinks your brain. Neuroscientist Lisa Genova explains how to strengthen it.
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A psychiatrist studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.
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Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman debunks the ‘10,000 steps per day’ myth.
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He lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.
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Short-term thinkers take shortcuts. Take the long path instead, explains futurist Ari Wallach.
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CRISPR’s gene drive can defy evolution. Here’s how, explained by Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna.
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Should you confess to cheating? A Columbia ethics professor explains.
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Futurist Ari Wallach shares how to become future-conscious.
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Financial expert Paula Pant explains how you can afford anything, but not everything.
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The ultimate definition of trauma, explained by leading psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk.
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