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For centuries, men prevented women from writing music. These classical composers broke with social norms and made their mark on history.
What if intelligence can thrive without consciousness?
Sometimes breaking a rule is the ethical thing to do.
Detective fiction reveals how a particular society or time period looks at crime and criminal justice.
The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.
The Standard Model of elementary particles has three nearly identical copies of particles: generations. And nobody knows why.
One theory for catatonia is that it is similar to an animal's “death feint.”
The base rate fallacy may help to explain low reproducibility in various fields of science.
How can the law keep up with new genetic technology?
The spooky world of quantum mechanics might reach out and touch you — by mutating your DNA. Welcome to the weird world of quantum biology.
The chemistry of cooking over an open flame.
Robinson v. California helped to established a rehabilitative ideal: addiction should be dealt with as a therapeutic matter.
There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.
Humans who've lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?
It's time to put on your listening hat.
Suppose that fetuses are persons. Since pregnant people are too, how should conflicts between them be settled?
The observable Universe is 92 billion light-years in diameter. These pictures put just how large that is in perspective.
Technologically, the answer is definitely no. But that doesn't mean CGI is always used to good effect.
Regardless of political ideology, one of the few things that many people seem to have in common is a moral hypocrisy that arises from a fundamental lack of self-reflection.
Only 1% of corn grown is the U.S. is the type that people eat.
We all know assholes. Perhaps, you are one. Now, psychologists are trying to answer one of life's biggest mysteries: What, exactly, makes someone an asshole?
13.8 billion years ago, the hot Big Bang gave rise to the Universe we know. Here's why the reverse, a Big Crunch, isn't how it will end.
Pseudoscience is science’s shadow.
Searching for truth in unorthodox ways can be a valuable exercise. But Anatoly Fomenko's alternate world history is just plain weird.
Geopolitics is not a magic 8-ball. But making financial decisions — such as those regarding retirement — in a multipolar world without geopolitics is akin to flying blind in a storm.