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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
31mins
Collective illusions — false assumptions about society that many people share — have existed for thousands of years in many different ways. Today, because of social media and modern technology, […]
Find your wallet or keys — or a nuclear submarine.
Climate activists' brand of iconoclasm is far removed from the Beeldenstorm that swept medieval Europe.
"Tristram Shandy" trolled its way to fame.
Virtually all the statistical methods researchers commonly use assume potential mating partners decide who they will have children with based on a roll of the dice.
Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.
We'll never be able to extract any information about what's inside a black hole's event horizon. Here's why a singularity is inevitable.
Surely they can't be worse…can they?
7mins
We don’t need one Elon Musk. We need 8 billion empathic futurists.
Mahāyāna is the most popular type of Buddhism in the world today.
5mins
Bo Seo, Harvard’s former debate coach, explains a good argument.
There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.
A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.
These ten maps provide a fascinating insight into the impact that soccer (sorry, football) has had worldwide.
The quantum world is one in which rules that are completely foreign to our everyday experience dictate bizarre behavior.
You only have 4,000 weeks of life. Use them wisely.
"All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
7mins
A psychiatrist studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.
8mins
He lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.