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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
Experiments tell us quantum entanglement defies space and time.
Most philosophers merely contemplate the world, but what about the ones who actually tried to change it?
6mins
Chloé Valdary shares the ancient Stoic principle that can defeat modern despair.
A toxicologist explains the impacts of antidepressants on fish — and no, they're not getting any happier.
Some experiences continue to pay dividends time and time again.
Million Stories
Unlock the full potential of your creativity with holistic detachment. This is the way of the editor.
Radical Emotional Acceptance calls on you to celebrate all of life's emotions — even the negative ones.
Far from practicing witchcraft, the experimentation of medieval alchemists helped bring about the Scientific Revolution.
3mins
Left–Right, Back–Forth, Up–Down. What’s the fourth dimension?
Adopting a healthy scepticism towards inherited ideas means “emptying the container of the Self.”
New blood types are regularly discovered by an unusual absence or an unusual presence — both of which can result in tragedy.
"It is more human to laugh at life than to lament it."
7mins
How the Big Bang gave us time, explained by theoretical physicist.
The right questions are those sparked from the joy of discovery.
When you bring two fingers together, you can feel them "touch" each other. But are your atoms really touching, and if so, how?
There might be a hard limit to our knowledge of the Universe.
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.
Size matters, but it's not the only thing.
To Einstein, nature had to be rational. But quantum physics showed us that there was not always a way to make it so.
In Einstein's relativity and the Standard Model, we only have three spatial dimensions. But there could be more, and many think there are.