Speculation about the existence of aliens goes all the way back at least to the Greek philosophers. Their arguments will sound familiar.
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Diplomacy is war by other means.
Is there victory in defeat?
When you’re a genius, how do you make ends meet?
To Fred Hoyle, the Big Bang was nothing more than a creationist myth. 75 years later, it’s cemented as the beginning of our Universe.
Today’s young people are intelligent and kind, but they are overworked and burned out.
Centuries ago, the plague forced people into quarantine for years. Isaac Newton and Galileo used the time to revolutionize the world.
Once a book is published, who gets to interpret it? Us or the author?
If you have an old TV set with the “rabbit ear” antennae, and you set it to channel 03, that snowy static can reveal the Big Bang itself.
Studies show that feelings of ease and comfort in a given situation are tied to feelings of authenticity.
Being more creative doesn’t require a ‘Muse.’ It’s about pairing intelligence and imagination.
“Politics is weird. It’s the only business in the world in which you take a really, really important position, and you give it to someone with no qualifications.” —Tony Blair
The most momentous and significant events in our lives are the ones we do not see coming. Life is defined by the unforeseen.
Take a journey through the maze of interpretations of one of the most famous paintings in history.
The answer to this question depends on how you define “freedom.”
Fear is one of the oldest and most powerful emotions known to man, so it should come as no surprise that horror stories are as old as storytelling itself.
An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.
Haunting photographs depict the dead as “still with us.”
What value does wit hold in genres defined by brute strength?
Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?
Distinguishing fact from fiction can be tough, especially when it comes to people as controversial as Stalin.
Successful romantic relationships require desire, but that desire doesn’t have to be sexual.
Journey to the West is rightly considered one of the most influential novels ever written, but the real reason for its success may be its charismatic poster-boy: The Monkey King.
Portraiture is one of the most intimate genres in all of painting, and it has reinvented itself many times across European history.
Uncovering the story of Milan Hausner, the Sadská clinic, and LSD psychotherapy behind the Iron Curtain.
Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.
Socrates lived during a time when people did not strive to separate fact from fiction. So how much of what we know about Socrates is true?
Great genius is not born of lightning bolt-like moments of inspiration. In reality, perseverance plays the biggest role.
A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”
By taking Satan out of the religious context, storytellers explored the nature of sin in new ways.