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Plato, Sun Tzu, and Buddha all lived in a “golden age” of philosophy that laid the foundation of modern thought.
Being more creative doesn’t require a ‘Muse.’ It’s about pairing intelligence and imagination.
In December 2022, a company called BioAge Labs published findings on a drug that worked to prevent muscular atrophy, or the loss of muscle strength and mass, in older people.
In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can’t there be an “antigravity” force?
Neuroscience suggests that it’s way better to give than to receive — and high performing people agree.
If you’re trying to break a bad habit or start a good one, psychologists have some tips.
An insect? A vermin? An unwanted animal? What in the world is Franz Kafka talking about?
Back in 1990, we hadn’t discovered a single planet outside of our Solar System. Here are 10 facts that would’ve surprised every astronomer.
For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use “years” to measure time. Can we do better?
Our thermodynamic arrow of time explains why the entropy of any isolated system always increases. But it can’t explain what we perceive.
We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.
While weltschmerz — literally “world-pain” — may be unpleasant, it can also spur us to change things for the better.
We’ve made god-like figures out of hard-charging CEOs — but it’s a bad idea to get high on your own supply.
Instead of worshipping Yahweh, the devotees were perhaps dedicated to Mars and Jupiter.
Just by observing the tiny amount of deuterium left over from the Big Bang, we can determine that dark matter and dark energy must exist.
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
Huge shifts in the workforce demand real-world changes in management practices; “command-and-control” no longer cuts it.
The golden rule of self-compassion: Treat yourself with the same kindness you treat others.
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
Time is relative, not absolute, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate. Your head and feet, therefore, don’t age at the same rate.
You can only create or destroy matter by creating or destroying equal amounts of antimatter. So how did we become a matter-rich Universe?
Slack’s recent radical upskilling booster week highlighted the urgent need for new approaches to L&D: here are some of the most groundbreaking.
The pathogen typically kills more than 90% of people it infects.
Innovation training encourages the kind of creativity and problem solving that can lead to breakthroughs in business.
Flies are in no way smart, but they experience time in an almost Matrix-like fashion.
Pain makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. What’s puzzling is why so many of us choose to seek out painful experiences.
Why dispelling the notion that it’s all about getting the correct answer is so powerful.
Cosmologists are largely still in the dark about the forces that drive the Universe.
The fictitious 31st-century world portrayed by the series is actually quite a bit like our own in the 21st century.