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Psychedelics are going mainstream. Here's your reading list.
A new study found that personality growth in young adults predicted career benefits such as income, degree attainment, and job satisfaction.
They came from different places and with different ideas, which still resonate today.
The view from beyond Pluto is far enough from Earth that we can see the stars shift. NASA’s New Horizons, humanity’s first spacecraft to encounter Pluto, is more than 4.3 billion […]
Can passenger airships make a triumphantly 'green' comeback?
The banality-of-evil thesis was a flashpoint for controversy.
From the mid-19th century, fossils were used as evidence for continental drift – but mainstream scientists didn't buy it until the 1950s.
Picking up the thread of a conversation they started two decades ago in Jerusalem, with some help from Lenny Bruce, philosopher Martha Nussbaum, and other influences along the way, host Jason Gots and Williams College professor Jeffrey Israel go deep on private grievances, public life, and where the two overlap.
We’ve come fantastically far in our understanding of the distant Universe. Here’s how we’ll go even farther. Sometime in 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will launch, deploy, and begin science […]
NASA’s New Horizons is the most distant technologically advanced observatory ever. And that makes all the difference. When you look at an object that’s very distant from you, how well […]
When he was developing his famous hierarchy of needs, Abraham Maslow cited 9 historical figures that achieved self-actualization.
The "dangerous people" framework is a myth.
The famed author headed to the pond thanks to Indian philosophy.
The distance between the American dream and reality is expressed best through literature.
The same 32 symbols show up in prehistoric European cave art.
Dividing students according to their abilities has little effect on learning and further entrenches socio-economic inequality. Is it time to stop?
Happy birthday to Pluto, discovered on this day in 1930. Pluto, first discovered in 1930, was no more than a distant dot in our most powerful telescopes. Clyde Tombaugh’s original images […]
Senator John Sidney McCain III, who died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018 at the age of 81, is lying in state in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol.
A theory of history says America is in the grips of a crisis called "The Fourth Turning" that will change it forever.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has cancelled an upcoming trip to an economic conference in Saudi Arabia amid the controversy involving missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Our attention is more than just a resource. It is an experience.
From what we know about the young prince and actress, how does the future look for their relationship based on psychological studies of successful marriages?
Traditional buildings were designed to provide protection against a savage world. But the world has changed. We need to develop a more sustainable relationship with the environment, and semi-permeable architecture allows us to do that.
Feeling the urge to scare yourself this Halloween? Here are seven important horror films you have to see.
Results are among the strongest evidence yet for “spooky action at a distance.”rnrn
Jordan Peterson is one of the most controversial public figures in recent years. Here's a recap of some of his ideas.
These ten characters have all had a huge influence on psychology. Their stories continue to intrigue those interested in personality and identity, nature and nurture, and the links between mind and body.
Sedna could be the very first known object from the Inner Oort Cloud. But time is running out to create and launch a mission. In 2003, scientists discovered an object beyond […]
What does it really mean when something is "Dickensian"? Or "Kafkaesque"? Sometimes these words are overused to the point where they lose their meaning. Here's how these and 6 other words got their origin.