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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
These theoretical megastructures represent one way an advanced civilization might harvest energy from stars.
While Taoism can be paradoxical and abstract, it also offers daily life lessons.
Acting "little and often" has huge consequences and they're not always good — but awareness yields solutions.
From "The Castle of Otranto" to "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, these books changed the literary landscape.
Narnia and early Middle-earth were pancake-esque — but their creators took differing views on de-globalization.
For generations, physicists have been searching for a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity isn't actually quantum at all?
Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.
The volcano’s historic eruption preserved an ancient library, but rendered its content illegible. A public competition aims to change that.
The essential element needed for innovation is creative dissonance — and the keys to unlocking it were forged by bankers in Italy.
The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don't physically exist. Is he right?
There are steps we can take to create a new paradigm that will help shift society's attitude towards women in the workplace.
Lockdowns moved the burden of COVID from the at-risk elderly to the less-at-risk young. Does this sacrifice merit compensation?
The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
"I grew up in New Jersey in the 1970s and that experience gave me everything I needed to become a skeptic."
Hundreds of millions of animals get killed for meat every day.
Our intuitive understanding of time is very different from a physicist's understanding of time. How do we reconcile these views?
Stem cells from a fetus can live within the mother for decades — and help her heal.
Instead of fear, his delusions bring him cheer. His psychiatrist embraces them.
When ancient humans stared into the darkness, they imagined monsters. Today, staring into the future, AI is the monster.
The sooner you can admit what’s swimming beneath the surface, the sooner you can improve your life.