Historically, periods of mass flourishing are underpinned by technological revolutions. Currently, we are undergoing a technological revolution unlike anything the world has ever seen.
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For the past 150+ years, the big ones have all missed us. But at some point, our good luck will run out.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
On May 4, 1970, the National Guard shot and killed four students during an anti-war protest. The massacre went on to change American culture forever.
Scientists have found evidence of hot springs near sites where ancient hominids settled, long before the control of fire.
Clinical trials by Janssen Pharmaceuticals showed troubling results.
This map of Europe’s 20 most populous islands holds a few surprises and unlocks a truckload of trivia.
Edinburgh University project geo-locates victims of Scottish ‘witch-prickers’ in the 16th and 17th century.
They’re not just a theoretical prediction of quantum gravity. They should be detectable, too. The Universe, if you look at it closely and carefully enough, is fundamentally quantum in nature. […]
Austro-Japanese aristocrat Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi later concentrated on plans for Pan-Europe.
This space expansionist ideology marked the beginning of what Arendt called “earth alienation.”
How did the Antarctic explorers survive tedium in the early 1900s?
Of all the injustices in Nobel Prize history, her 1957 Nobel snub is the most egregious. One of the biggest scientific revolutions of the 20th century was the discovery of […]
Those ancient Chinese philosophers earned their insights.
Half a billion people were infected.
Demanding appropriate levels of skepticism and scrutiny isn’t cruelty, but rather demonstrates scientific integrity and intellectual honesty. Every few months, a novel headline will fly across the world, claiming to […]
From gun control to immigration, Americans remain split on a handful of contentious issues.
CERN’s bold new proposal has physicists confronting the biggest question of all: is building a new collider worth it? If you want to discover anything novel about the natural, physical […]
Within the next billion years, the Magellanic Clouds might merge with our galaxy. But the new stars are already here. Within the Milky Way, there are only a few instances of […]
It’s a pipe dream that violates the laws of physics, and not even quantum mechanics can give us a way out. One of the most fundamental rules of physics, undisputed since […]
What qualifies someone for the top position in American government?
It’s not what you have, it’s what you do with it.
Forget Copenhagen, Many-Worlds, Pilot Waves and all the others. What you’re left with is reality. When it comes to understanding the Universe, scientists have traditionally taken two approaches in tandem with […]
A longstanding astronomical gap between neutron stars and black holes is finally coming to a close. Astronomy has taken us so far into the Universe, from beyond Earth to the planets, […]
Sobering accounts from one of the most pivotal battles in world history.
Why the effects of aging are detrimental to being the U.S. president.
It now moves to a full hearing in front of the arbitrator.
You might think that we live in a three dimensional Universe based on space alone. But you cannot leave time out of it. If you were asked to describe how you […]