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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
4mins
Everyone commits this rationality error.
If there are three neutrino species, all with different masses, then how is energy conserved when they oscillate from one flavor to another?
Science cannot help us understand or describe first-person experience. Zen koans are a powerful form for helping us reach that description.
Everything everywhere all at once.
When it comes to handling our emotions, we can’t afford to be none the WISER.
How scientists found out that we live in a cosmic aquarium.
When supermassive black holes merge, they emit more energy than anything else to occur in our Universe except the Big Bang.
We bake pies for Pi Day, so why not celebrate other mathematical achievements.
It's the best-known transcendental number of all-time, and March 14 (3/14 in many countries) is the perfect time to celebrate Pi (π) Day!
Social media has made yelling past each other all the easier.
Virtually anyone can now create convincing deepfakes. That doesn't mean you should.
The nature of civilizational threats has changed in a mere decade.
Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.
Are anti-workers the lazy children of privilege or the brave vanguard of a utopic upheaval?
“The Tao of the wise is to work without effort.”
Queen Calafia seems like she could have sprung from the pages of a modern fantasy novel.
5mins
The formula for rational thinking explained by Steven Pinker.
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would "ER = EPR" mean for our Universe?
About 1 in 5 adults now say they have no religious affiliation, up from 1 in 50 in 1960.
The secret may lie in an old idiom: "Sleep on it."