“We can make ourselves more likely to be happy by building a life that includes the conditions that make for happiness.”

The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here's how that's possible.

"The sense that we are a solid entity, an unchanging entity that exists someplace in our body and takes ownership of our body, and even ownership of our brain rather than being identical to our brain, that is where the illusion lies."

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Realizing that matter and energy are quantized is important, but quantum particles aren't the full story; quantum fields are needed, too.

It makes no sense to talk about a “religious life” and a “public life” — there is just life.

“The simplest, most powerful way to reinforce work, not jobs, is to ask people to do something different.”

Stuck on a hamster wheel of mindless social media scrolling? Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff explains how to consciously redirect your reward system.

In "The Headache," Tom Zeller Jr. explores one of the human brain's most enduring, and painful, enigmas.

A conversation with the legendary VC on his latest book, his work at Techstars, and why “give first” is more than a motto — it’s a mindset.

The JFK Memorial at Runnymede provides a link between America's and Britain's founding documents.

From trepanning to lobotomies, humans have long struggled to manage emotion. Today, we have better tools. Psychologist Ethan Kross shares what actually works, and why.

“The public really doesn't realize that they are much closer to CIA spies than they think they are.”

Before becoming America’s most infamous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was a magnetic actor who was beloved by audiences and courted by critics.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

It’s something to wrestle and live with, says behavioral scientist Arthur Brooks.

How deep is your kink?

Today’s technologist archetypes share a blind spot. Brendan McCord, founder of the Cosmos Institute explains why “philosophy is essential” when building planetary-scale technology.

No matter what it is that we discover about reality, the fact that reality itself can be understood remains the most amazing fact of all.

In "Dinner with King Tut," Sam Kean examines how a burgeoning field is recreating ancient tasks to uncover historical truths.