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Social media distorts the reality of the public sphere.
Time for a status check before watching "Moon Knight."
On forums, “true bitcoiners” didn’t talk about technology or crypto. Instead, they talked about trust and corruption.
Many people perceive the struggle to understand our Universe as a battle between science and God. But this is a false dichotomy.
From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here's a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.
It's possible to measure philosophy's progress in two ways. But is that really the point?
For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use "years" to measure time. Can we do better?
The relationship between these two ways of thinking about the world deserves deeper exploration.
Until robots understand jokes and sarcasm, artificial general intelligence will remain in the realm of science fiction.
The attitude we take to Will Smith's slap will mirror our attitudes to violence, masculinity, and protecting others more generally.
From life on Earth to the planet itself, there are four ways our planet will actually experience "the end," no matter how we define it.
From the tablets of the Babylonians to the telescopes of modern science, humans have always looked to the skies for fundamental answers.
By toppling medieval Europe’s mightiest political power, the Protestant Reformation ushered in a new age of freedom, religious and otherwise.
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?” Steinbeck writes.
Multiple lines of evidence — physical, chemical, and biological — must converge for scientists to conclude that alien life has been found.
Even though the brain is only 2% of our total body mass, it consumes up to 25% of our energy.
Even a tiny sliver of the Universe can reveal the cosmic story of what's out there and how it came to be the way it is today.
Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?
Can a non-native species be a friend instead of a foe?
Far from being inappropriate, many of the most controversial acceptance speeches highlighted important issues in the film industry.
Understanding the factors behind recent growth could help us better approach inequality.
Modern applications of Stoicism show up in unexpected places, from the latest techniques in psychotherapy to texts on Christian theology.
“It’s not a secret that legal language is very hard to understand. It's borderline incomprehensible a lot of the time.”
Where the prime meridian meets the equator, a non-existent island captures our imagination — and our non-geocoded data.
Psychological safety plays a key role in fostering innovation and collaborative group dynamics where all team members feel comfortable being themselves.
About six minutes after the heart stops, the brain essentially dies.
Every year, scientists like George Church get better at editing the genomes of human beings. But will genome editing help or hurt us?
We imagine and debate the inner lives of literary characters, knowing there can be no truth about their real motives or beliefs. Could our own inner lives also be works of fiction?
War is peace.
Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.
John Templeton Foundation