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Dr. Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist, who is questioning the very nature of life and how we’re attempting to find it elsewhere.
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Society treats teenagers as if they’re a problem to be solved, but the truth is that we have to prepare them to solve our problems. It’s time that we change the narrative.
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Arguments on social media are notorious. Can practicing intellectual humility make us smarter and happier? Science says yes.
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Psychologist Daniel Goleman shares what he learned by studying the brain waves of Olympic-level meditators, and his findings are unprecedented.
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Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.
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To understand the edges of our universe, we’ll need to explore the edges of our own philosophies.
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IQ tests only measure two of the eight intelligences. Howard Gardner explains them all.
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People rarely question their own moral compass. But do you know what shapes yours?
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Thanks to time-traveling telescopes, we can see more about the Big Bang.
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield shares how living in space has bettered his life on Earth.
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Philosophers have been making the claim that free will is an illusion for hundreds of years. Dr. Uri Maoz shares what modern neuroscience has to say about it.
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According to Zena Hitz, the idea of the intellectual has become distorted. She believes “the real thing is something more extraordinary but also more available to us.”
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James Gleick, the author of biographies of Isaac Newton and Richard Feynman, discusses what they and other geniuses have in common.
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Social interactions are important for building the strongest relationships.
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The search for alien life is far too human-centric. Our flawed understanding of what life really is may be holding us back from important discoveries about the universe and ourselves.
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As morally sturdy as we may feel, it turns out that humans are natural hypocrites when it comes to passing moral judgment.
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Scientists ripped up kids' drawings. This is what they learned about relationships.
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