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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
4mins
We’re wrong about what other people think – and that has harmful impacts on the next generation.
Stand Together
Where the prime meridian meets the equator, a non-existent island captures our imagination — and our non-geocoded data.
Psychological safety plays a key role in fostering innovation and collaborative group dynamics where all team members feel comfortable being themselves.
About six minutes after the heart stops, the brain essentially dies.
Every year, scientists like George Church get better at editing the genomes of human beings. But will genome editing help or hurt us?
We imagine and debate the inner lives of literary characters, knowing there can be no truth about their real motives or beliefs. Could our own inner lives also be works of fiction?
War is peace.
Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.
John Templeton Foundation
Nostalgia is a happy remembrance of the past, yet it also leaves us feeling sad. Perhaps ironically, it can serve as a painkiller.
Is there any good reason for assigning North and South the way we do, or could we have just as easily done the reverse?
Most people have a distorted view of what being a scientist is like. Scientists need to make a greater effort to challenge stereotypes.
A growing body of research shows that religious people seem to enjoy more psychological well-being compared to others.
The laws of physics state that you can't create or destroy matter without also creating or destroying an equal amount of antimatter. So how are we here?
To understand the edges of our universe, we’ll need to explore the edges of our own philosophies.
John Templeton Foundation
3mins
Why studying happiness is good for your “psychological immune system,” explained by Harvard “happiness professor” Tal Ben-Sharar.
Despite all that we've learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could "God" be the answer?
From a desert oasis to the Rocky Mountains, being filled with awe makes me a better scientist.
The human brain is only the latest chapter in the ancient story of thinking on Earth.
Shortly after planet Earth formed, life took a permanent hold on our surface. But just how common is such an outcome?
We cannot deduce laws about a higher level of complexity by starting with a lower level of complexity. Here, reductionism meets a brick wall.