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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
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Primatologist Frans de Waal inadvertently popularized the term "alpha male." Now, he’s debunking common stereotypes to explain what an "alpha male" really is — empathetic and protective.
An insect? A vermin? An unwanted animal? What in the world is Franz Kafka talking about?
The idea that consciousness emerges naturally alongside intelligence could be an anthropocentric distortion.
To advance the gender-affirming healthcare of all those who transition, we must also understand the nature and causes of those who detransition.
In physics, we reduce things to their elementary, fundamental components, and build emergent things out of them. That's not the full story.
Who — or what — really controls your mind?
Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature's most unreliable narrators.
The documents that convicted the infamous traitor were all kept in this unassuming leather pouch.
A new online religion is spreading misinformation and phony products.
Unlock the paradoxes of life through poetic realism.
John Templeton Foundation
Meet the world's largest landowners.
Nobody actually knows what will come of AI. But we can console ourselves with the knowledge that nobody has ever really known anything about the future.
Origin of life studies have always focused on a set of strict environments that could give rise to life. Ante-life opens new possibilities.
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
Descartes broke from the European philosophers who preceded him and devised a new way of considering humanity and the world.
Centuries ago, the typical British coffeehouse was more like a "school without a master" than a place to grab a quick boost of caffeine.
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
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Plato and Carl Sagan were wrong about the human brain, says a top neuroscientist.
The Foo Fighters are at the dead center of the map, so all the other bands are happier, sadder, angrier, or hornier.
"In witness whereof, the parties hereunto have set their hands to these presents as a deed on the day month and year hereinbefore mentioned."