“The Man in the High Castle” may be the most beloved alternate history book, but it is not the most historically accurate.
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Newborn stars are surrounded only by a featureless disk. Debris disks persist for hundreds of millions of years. So when do planets form?
Wind farms seem less productive when scientists incorporate more realistic atmospheric models into their output predictions.
Our state of extreme social interconnectedness has rapidly accelerated the rollercoaster pace at which societal confidence may collapse.
Too many companies fail to recognize that “the deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated” — but the solution is easy.
1700s economic principles predicted Uber. A Nobel Prize-winning economist explains why.
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A controversial new philosophy paper tries to bring our moral prejudices to heel. Should it?
With great power comes retcon responsibility.
The Osbournes was MTV’s biggest show – and it almost cost Jack Osbourne his life. Here’s how his family’s reality TV fame stole his childhood, and how he’s been able to heal since.
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It’s spooky, and it’s happening all around us. And inside us.
With sea levels rising, the Dutch are pondering floating cities — while also exporting their engineering know-how to turn a tidy profit.
Adrie Kusserow, an anthropologist and scholar of Buddhism, shares how her study of the religion and its history has reshaped her view of the world — and herself.
The Universe isn’t as “clumpy” as we think it should be.
Who — or what — really controls your mind?
A new online religion is spreading misinformation and phony products.
We commonly stereotype psychopaths as criminals, but there are probably more in upper management.
We bake pies for Pi Day, so why not celebrate other mathematical achievements.
For Nietzsche, a great work of art can either veil the horror of reality or – better yet – help us face it.
Some of the weirdest characters in Greek mythology were Athenian kings.
Lawmen and outlaws were often the same people.
Humanity is in trouble. Here’s how aliens could help.
The history of cartography might have been very different if the Latin version of Muhammad al-Idrisi’s atlas had survived instead of the Arabic one.
This map samples some of the digits that make up the DDC system, invented by the brilliant but flawed Melvil Dewey.
According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.
Eric Olson — CEO and co-founder of Consensus — takes his cues from the university of legendary coaches.
Until the Apollo missions, we had no idea how the moon got here, just a series of educated guesses. They rewrote the story of the moon’s origins.
Does history have a grand narrative, or is it just a random walk to no place in particular? And is the world as we know it about to change?
Rejecting romanticism, these famous paintings depict war as it really is: sadistic and senseless.
It’s not for climate science and condensed matter physics. It’s for advancing our understanding beyond spherical cows.