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“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?”
How one man’s divine dream became a poultry-shaped reality.
Predictive power has perverse, anti-democratic consequences. So be a good citizen and lie to election pollsters.
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To understand Vincent van Gogh, we must first debunk the myth of the tortured artist. Van Gogh believed his illness inhibited his creativity.
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The quantum world — and its inherent uncertainty — defies our ability to describe it in words.
Dive into five philosophical schools that have faded into obscurity but still whisper through the ages.
When your passion becomes your day job, sometimes the day job becomes a chore.
Diogenes engaged in shocking behavior to demonstrate the contradictions, small-mindedness, and sheer absurdity of prevailing social conventions.
Using physics, Ross Chastain floored it during the final turn, scraping the wall and passing 5 cars to advance to the NASCAR championship.
Portraiture is one of the most intimate genres in all of painting, and it has reinvented itself many times across European history.
Simple physics makes hauling vast ice chunks thousands of miles fiendishly difficult — but not impossible.
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Some classic books, like Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” remain controversial to this day.
In “Dear Oliver,” neuroscientist Susan Barry describes how her 10-year correspondence with Oliver Sacks unleashed her inner author.
Nothing meaningful is done quickly.
Entrenched business wisdom says that community-led economic systems are pure fantasy. Douglas Rushkoff disagrees.
Six authors, six monumental legacies, and a unique thread connecting them: a solitary novel that shines brightly.
Archaeologist Bernard Frischer spent decades uploading the ruins of the Eternal City to the cloud. Here’s what it looks like.
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.
It had long seemed impossible that supermassive black holes could grow to such enormous sizes. But the biggest problem is now solved.
“Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea.”
Despite all that we’ve learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could “God” be the answer?
When the great American tradition of the road trip meets the great Jewish tradition of the deli, we get the Great American Deli Schlep.
People around the world, mostly Generation Z, are obsessed with the look and feel of gothic, elitist universities. Why?