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In her 2020 book, "The Alchemy of Us," Ainissa Ramirez explores how important material inventions shaped the course of human experience.
Or you might just be a Leo.
People can lose their authentic selves when they don't honestly confront life's potential, according to the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.
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Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates. Lamborghini vs. Ferrari. What can the most famous rivalries teach us about human nature?
It's that time of year when the hours of meticulous wrapping of Christmas toys are viciously undone in seconds by tiny children.
Just as storylines make sense only when you have the context of the beginning and the end, listeners need to understand the impetus for why the album was even made.
Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where's everyone else?
Many of his criticisms ring true today.
Many of the furniture giant’s products are named after Swedish locations. Not everyone is happy about that.
For such a near-universal concept, the definition of "heroism" is difficult to pin down.
Hit shows are like societal mirrors, capable of reflecting the cultural zeitgeist whose likeness they try to record.
Do your kids a favor and give them the gift of philosophy this Christmas.
Science is a method of inquiry about nature, while scientism is philosophy. And scientism is no longer up to the challenge of meeting the most pressing issues of our day.
“To be ignorant of causes is to be frustrated in action.” So wrote Francis Bacon, counsel to Queen Elizabeth I of England and key architect of the scientific method. In […]
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1700s economic principles predicted Uber. A Nobel Prize-winning economist explains why.
Institute for Humane Studies
Even without the greatest individual scientist of all, every one of his great scientific advances would still have occurred. Eventually.
Role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons offer a valuable insight: Life is about shifting labels.
The singer-songwriter distilled the essence of the holidays into a hit song, and for her efforts she was crowned the Queen of Christmas.
Cities overstimulate our senses and are full of people we don't know. Maybe humans were meant for this.
Think leisure is pointless?
No matter how hard we try, we will never reach a final theory that unifies scientific knowledge. The very nature of science doesn't allow it.
What value does wit hold in genres defined by brute strength?
Released in 1972, "Ways of Seeing" has proven to be as worthy of study as the artistic traditions it investigates.
Far from acting as the conduits of a benevolent deity, these religious leaders threw the teachings of their own church out of the window.
Why does hearing sad music feel so good?
Universal basic income can secure basic independence for citizens, something which modern states have failed to do, argues author Louise Haagh.
We should all pause to appreciate the awe-inspiring beauty of the Universe.
When we are more focused on the good things we enjoy in life, we have more to live for.
This map of Hutterite colonies in North America says something about religion and evolution — and more precisely, speciation.