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Between the hedonic and eudaimonic life, there’s a happy medium to be found.

A competency framework is a way to align individual performance with organizational goals. Read on to learn how.

If our goal is to effect the greatest possible progress, what would it look like to approach this holistically? What might need to dispositionaly in how we approach solving our most important problems—at an individual level, a community level, or at a civilizational or global one? We asked our experts to think big picture about how what new thinking would be required to create a larger pro-progress framework.

Man seeking meaningful relationship at the intersection of on-demand empathy and Rule 34.

Creating a culture of innovation requires champions and cheerleaders at every level and in every function within an organization.

For generations, physicists have been searching for a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity isn’t actually quantum at all?

The game of Plinko perfectly illustrates chaos theory. Even with indistinguishable initial conditions, the outcome is always uncertain.

It’s deceptively tricky to distinguish living systems from non-living systems. Physics may be key to solving the problem.

It might seem petty and shallow to get upset over a bad gift, but there’s often a deeper reason behind the feeling.

If there are human-sized creatures walking around on other planets, would we be able to view them directly?

“Values emphasizing tolerance and self-expression have diverged most sharply, especially between high-income Western countries and the rest of the world.”

It turns out it’s hard to make work at an Amazon warehouse fun.

It’s better to pursue moral actions instead of the ephemeral state of happiness, according to the philosopher Immanuel Kant.

Our concept of “failure” is way too narrow.

Kaelynn Partlow shares her story about life with autism, ADHD, and dyslexia, and how finding the right diagnosis helped her embrace her neurodivergent identity.

“Uitwaaien” is a popular activity around Amsterdam—one believed to have important psychological benefits.

The sharpest optical images, for now, come from the Hubble Space Telescope. A ground-based technique can make images over 100 times sharper.

“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

The time to begin exploring VR training is now. Here are the pros, cons, and different ways this technology can be utilized. 

How “Catastrophe and Social Change” (1920) became the first systematic analysis of human behavior in a disaster.

You’ve spent almost a decade gaining extremely specialized skills. But that’s ok; your value is greater than you realize.

Lab-grown meat may work better as a complement to animal agriculture rather than a replacement of it.

If you can model anything in the Universe with an equation, mathematics is how you get the solution(s). Physics must go a step further.

Is science absolute? Its truths and discoveries guide us toward the nature of reality, but we must always remain open-minded to revisions.

Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is both completely normal and absolutely remarkable in a number of ways. Here’s the story of our cosmic home.

How many tins of beans make a stockpile, and when does a basement become a bunker? 

For years and over three separate experiments, “lepton universality” appeared to violate the Standard Model. LHCb at last proved otherwise.

Gamification, minimalist design, using AI to track behavior — this article dives into these and other key ways to optimize an eLearning strategy.

LK-99, almost certainly, isn’t a room-temperature superconductor. The underlying physics of the phenomenon helps us understand why.

The Grammy-nominated artist reflects on a life of heartbreak and a future full of hope.