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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
Sight helps you see a room, but interoception lets you sense it from inside your own body.
Zen masters often have strikingly different ideas about how to live and attain enlightenment.
Some of the weirdest characters in Greek mythology were Athenian kings.
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What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That old adage roughly sums up the idea of antifragility, a term coined by the statistician and writer Nassim Taleb. The term refers […]
The AI is helping Twitter users plot movies, design meal plans, and more.
"Carpe diem" was only one part of Horace's poem Odes 1.11.
The insanity of the academic job market laid out in numbers.
9mins
What do physicists actually mean when they talk about the multiverse?
Life is the only physical system that actively uses information.
Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand.
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Can psychedelics solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? A Johns Hopkins professor explains.
We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.
St Nick had a history of teleporting long before needing to reach all the world's children in one night.
There is more consensus on what heaven looks like than hell.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
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Pessimism sounds smart. Optimism sounds dumb. Don’t fall for it, says Wired’s Kevin Kelly.
John Templeton Foundation