Portraiture is one of the most intimate genres in all of painting, and it has reinvented itself many times across European history.
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In the philosophy of Star Wars, the Sith are evil because they surrender to passion. But is a life of total rationality a “good” life?
Pando is a stand of aspen in Utah that is 14,000 years old and weighs 12 million pounds. Humans threaten to end its long reign.
Retired astronaut Ron Garan believes that before we can begin solving our problems, we must understand our interrelatedness through the “orbital perspective.”
When Olympic athletes perform dazzling feats of athletic prowess, they are using the same principles of physics that gave birth to stars and planets.
Reductionism is a successful way to explain the universe, but it cannot replace experience. This is part of the mystery of life.
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Hoarders know their habits are abnormal, and yet they cannot help themselves. Maybe you can help them.
Scientists believe they have the answer, but philosophers prove them wrong.
Frank Lloyd Wright captured serenity in his masterpiece, Fallingwater, but his egotistical tendencies made life for others anything but serene.
To the Greek philosopher, all of our actions ultimately aim at our own pleasure.
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Our economy is dominated by middlemen, including huge companies such as Walmart and Amazon. There are many benefits to going direct instead.
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Take a trip through these master-crafted fantasy societies and ask yourself: Could I actually live there?
Research shows that spending more time on social media is associated with body image issues in boys and young men.
Sometimes, new combinations of preexisting things revolutionize life.
Will and Ariel Durant were praised for their ability to look at the big picture without losing sight of its little details, even if they did miss some of them.
“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”
To do more, it sometimes pays to do nothing at all.
A famous explorer’s doomed ship is finally found 107 years after it was lost to the Antarctic deep.
Research sheds light on social behavior of these mysterious predators.
We’re cautiously optimistic about our new findings.
Results from an experiment using the Large Hadron Collider challenges the accepted model of physics.
Popular media often frame scientists as having a cold, sterile view of the world. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
In Louisiana, high school starts at 7:30 am. Research shows that is at least an hour too early.
Da Vinci dreamed up a helicopter 400 years before they actually existed. Now, engineers have brought his design to life, but with a twist.