Physician Danielle Ofri argues that honest conversation is the most powerful mechanism for healing.
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The answer has nothing at all to do with the Higgs boson. In this Universe, there are very few fundamental properties that cannot be derived from something simpler. The rules governing […]
“Buddhist psychology and Western psychotherapy both hold out hope for a more flexible ego, one that does not pit the individual against everyone else in a futile attempt to gain total surety.”
President Trump wants to end “chain migration”. Is a merit-based system better?
The science of volcanic lighting is almost as spectacular as the phenomenon itself. When hot, molten rock pushes its way up through the Earth’s crust and exits through to the […]
The highest concentration in Europe of places named after saints? Galicia, in Spain.
Your future happiness and success will depend on the double-edged sword of embracing new technology to stay connected, and being smart enough to unplug at the right time.
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Reality is whatever your body believes. Virtual reality knows how to hack that.
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From illegal stimulants to formaldehyde, toxins are freely sold in supermarkets everywhere. Where is the FDA?
Americans are, often with justification, regarded as not being versed in philosophy. This is a shame, as the United States and the colonies that proceeded it have produced many great thinkers
Mark Zuckerberg insists the future of virtual reality will put “people first.” The development trajectory of the technology tells another story.
We may use superlatives all the time, but that’s no substitute for quantifying just how bad, big, or important something is. This article was written by Kimberly Arcand and Megan […]
Machine learning and predictive AI are changing the way we operate our devices and machines.
If you want to know how we get something from nothing, you’d better understand what we mean! When we look around at our world and Universe today, we talk and think […]
Lab-grown, cultured meats, dairy, and leather will be hitting shelves soon. Paul Shapiro reports on the coming trend in his new book, Clean Meat.
There’s no denying that technology has had an enormous impact on business communication—as well as almost every other aspect of business. The ability to instantly communicate with almost anyone from […]
Street names can cause diplomatic offence – and sometimes, that’s exactly why they’re there.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is working in with video game developers to create a space exploration game called Space Odyssey.
Is moral superiority the reason American society is so polarized?
The Tour is both the oldest and most popular of the world’s major cycling races. The Tour has been to Holland more often than it has been to Corsica.
Groundbreaking research finds that the human brain creates multi-dimensional neural structures.
The discovery of the first-ever asteroid to arrive from interstellar space is full of lessons for us all. On October 19th, astronomers discovered an objectunlike any other we’d seen before: a […]
The origin of life on Earth may have nothing to do with Earth at all. “An extrapolation of the genetic complexity of organisms to earlier times suggests that life began before […]
Hans Monderman believed that societies could make roads safer by making drivers more uncertain, and therefore alert.
The results have implications for consumers, educators, and business people.
Four countries around the world host both Russian and American military bases.
Nothing says “late great nation” like a new map of your country with its territory reduced
Your Internet Service Providers are collecting and selling your browsing history. Does that bother you? If so, it may be time to setup a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to better encrypt your data and spoof your location.
Everything is made of quarks, leptons, photons, and gluons, yet everything comes with a finite, non-zero size. “There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the […]
How do you fool a robot? It’s not difficult—machines are only good at what we tell them to do. But even still, many parts of our world may not be “readable” to some robots.