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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
It is through speaking and listening that human beings become who they are.
It is wrong to think that these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.
There's an extremely good chance that there is, or at least was, life on Mars. But is it native to Mars, or did it originate from Earth?
Can a shared language promote peace? Some people think so.
Uploading your mind is not a pathway to immortality. Instead, it will create a possibly hostile digital doppelgänger.
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
What we call "basic research" is actually the most cutting-edge. It underpins knowledge, and without it, technology does not come into being.
Moral panics about the content of children's cartoons and other forms of entertainment have a long history.
Scientific journals, which are supposed to be the sacred scriptures of academia, are often full of shoddy research and misinformation.
For decades people have arranged to freeze their bodies after death, dreaming of resurrection by advanced future medicine. Many met a fate far grislier than death.
Long before Christopher and Magellan, ancient explorers voyaged into the unknown and brought home extraordinary tales.
If Rome was not built in a day, why do you think you can be?
Just as there are many types of believers, there's not only one type of atheist.
John Templeton Foundation
The emergence of life in the universe is as certain as the emergence of matter, gravity, and the stars. Life is the universe developing a memory, and our chemical detection system could find it.
John Templeton Foundation
Evolutionary psychology could explain those otherworldly feelings.
There are two conceptions of free will: "straight" and "mixed."
A second Enlightenment would have a far bigger task: Saving civilization itself.
Proponents of transhumanism make big promises, such as a future in which we upload our minds into a supercomputer. But there is a fatal flaw in this argument: reductionism.
Quantum communication offers a surer path to sending an interstellar message, as well as receiving one. But can we do it?