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For nearly a century, physicists have argued over how to interpret quantum physics. But reality exists independent of any interpretation.
Seneca thought the use of ice was a "true fever of the most malignant kind."
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In 1965, six boys were stranded on an island. Fifteen months later, the survivors were rescued. How many were there?
John Templeton Foundation
These five great books should prompt us to work on what needs fixing the most in the world: ourselves.
"The Da Vinci Code" popularized the idea that Christians stole much of their theology. It's wrong, especially regarding Christmas.
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Climate change. War. Civil unrest. Is it responsible to have kids today?
We are still new at this.
All the things that surround and compose us didn't always exist. But describing their origin depends on what 'nothing' means.
"Lethal autonomous weapon" sounds friendlier than "killer robot."
Belief in God and the afterlife increased, while belief in superstition decreased.
For years and over three separate experiments, "lepton universality" appeared to violate the Standard Model. LHCb at last proved otherwise.
If aliens are driven mostly by biological imperatives, humanity could be in big trouble if we ever meet technologically advanced beings.
To prevent overloading the memory system, the brain may have a mechanism that tosses out certain types of memories.
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that we often don't truly want to obtain what we think we desire.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Universe, explained by physicist Sean Carroll.
Is the dumpster in the alley worthy of a poem?
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Our impulse to seek out agreement is stifling us, says world debate champion Bo Seo.
A concept known as "wave-particle duality" famously applies to light. But it also applies to all matter — including you.
A vitamin that makes your body repellent to mosquitos sounds too good to be true, because it is.
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What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here’s what it taught him.
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.
