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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
Science fiction movies capture a classic human flaw: getting the future mostly wrong.
5mins
Not all conflict is bad. Expert Priya Parker explains how “heat” can be harnessed for good.
Does humanity have a moral imperative to seed life on lifeless worlds? And should we avoid colonizing a planet if life already exists there?
Within a month of that initial conversation, Peter Singer became a vegetarian.
Einstein's most famous equation is E = mc², which describes the rest mass energy inherent to particles. But motion matters for energy, too.
The Shirky Principle states that "institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."
Soviet censorship was thorough yet fallible.
5mins
Geniuses and prodigies are captivating. But generalists rule the world.
John Templeton Foundation
If something exists, it is by definition natural.
But make sure you bring the fossegrim the proper offering—or else.
7mins
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Nurse defines the 5 core principles of life.
Neuroscience is beginning to provide clues about the emergence of human consciousness.
John Templeton Foundation
If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.
Claims of a "loneliness epidemic" aren't based on robust data. Loneliness might be a problem, but it's not worse than it was in the past.
There may be a symmetrical interdependence between order and chaos.
When the Universe was first born, the ingredients necessary for life were nowhere to be found. Only our "lucky stars" enabled our existence.
500 sheep were slaughtered to produce the 2,060 pages of the "Codex Amiatinus," a Latin translation of the Bible.
Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.
Take a hint from Einstein and Mozart — unplug and make peace with some degree of failure.
Some say that the Sun is a green-yellow color, but our human eyes see it as white, or yellow-to-red during sunset. What color is it really?