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Three of our dimensions are spatial and one is temporal, but could there be more? From any point in space, you are free to move in any direction you choose. No […]
Both views are equally spectacular, but unequally informative. Every so often, a creative amateur project highlights our professional achievements. This mosaic shows the region between the constellations of Cygnus and […]
Using modern tools, a team of astronomers uses celestial sleuthing to figure out when Vermeer painted his masterpiece “View of Delft.”
What good is a conspiracy theory you can’t profit from?
A study uses sugar water experiments to show that hummingbirds can see colors invisible to us.
Many of the bathrooms uncovered at Pompeii and elsewhere were communal.
A lifelong fan on why she’s drawn to the magnificent gas giant.
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When one group says “A” and another group says “B,” consider that everyone might be wrong. One of the biggest enemies of scientific truth is the setup of a false dichotomy. […]
A volcano in California is a hot spot for conspiracy theorists.
The heart of the religious ritual is mysticism, argues Brian Muraresku in “The Immortality Key.”
Anastasia lives alone in perfect harmony with nature – or so the story goes – and nature serves her devotedly.
Perspective twisting books on biology, social science, medical science, cosmology, and tech.
Over the coming decades, over 100,000 new satellites are expected. For countless millennia, whenever we were faced with a clear, cloudless, moonless night, all of humanity was able to witness […]
During a 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, Steve Jobs related an anecdote about an experience he had shortly after dropping out of college that conveys one of the qualities […]
The Sahara is a harsh environment today. It used to be much, much, worse.
He says his company would survive even if Instagram disappeared tomorrow.
Chronic irregular sleep in children was associated with psychotic experiences in adolescence, according to a recent study out of the University of Birmingham’s School of Psychology.
By the time John Paul DeJoria founded John Paul Mitchell Systems, he’d already sold encyclopedias on commission door-to-door, and he understood the importance of persistence in the face of rejection. […]
The Himalayan Kingdom best known for its concept of “Gross National Happiness.”
Attending religious service once a week found to lower risk of suicide and other “deaths of despair”
In late April, the news hit us hard: Lorna Breen, an emergency room doctor in a Manhattan hospital flooded with coronavirus patients, committed suicide. According to her father, the emotional […]
Mathematics is the most useful tool we have for understanding the Universe. But it doesn’t answer to anything on its own. At the frontiers of theoretical physics, many of the most […]
Google’s “Year in Search 2020” results reveal a year when “why” was searched more than ever.
These seven subjects don’t teach toward the test, but they will help students lead happier, healthier, and smarter lives.
Following the Booker shortlisting of her novel 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in This Strange World, British-Turkish author and activist Elif Shafak returns to Think Again to talk about forgotten lives, the nature of evil, and what we mean by progress.
“I think when you come to grips with what happened, it gives you a chance of doing something different. What’s really dark is when you’re going through something and you have no perspective.” By revisiting—through poetry—his 9 years in prison for a teenage carjacking, Reginald Dwayne Betts finds freedoms most of us have never known.
The English Department is instituting a series of reforms that cuts across the entire university.
How an environmental theology class opened my eyes—and mind—to my biblical responsibility.
In her book The Art of Rest, one researcher conducted a thorough analysis of the top 10 activities we find most restful.
The stereotype of the unfeeling researcher in a lab coat just isn’t true.