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As a doctor, I am reminded every day of the fragility of the human body, how closely mortality lurks just around the corner.
Robert Whitaker discusses the long-term impact of prescription medication.
Early reading experiences play an important role in brain development.
In both visible light and infrared, we get a preview of the spectacular advances that await the James Webb Space Telescope. What astronomers see isn’t just determined by the telescope […]
Retail therapy has been proven to make us happier, but is there a catch?
Technique may enable speedy, on-demand design of softer, safer neural devices.
Some intriguing examples of people grooming the land for the unseen observer above.
Wanna lose weight? How does eating only pineapple and lamb chops sound? Maybe receiving all your sustenance through a feeding tube instead?
It’s that the Universe can be understood at all. Don’t deafen yourself to its lessons. In a nutshell, 2020 has been a unique year in human history. For the first time […]
Researchers discovered a mysterious quantum effect that breaks a 60-year-old physics theorem.
Are atoms, humans, planets, and galaxies destined to expand, too? One of the most revolutionary discoveries of the past century was the fact that the Universe is not eternally static and […]
Etgar Keret’s stories are as funny, painful, and surreal as life itself. We talk about the craziness of his native Israel, his new collection of short stories FLY ALREADY, marijuana, dementia, and much more.
What better way to understand the world around us than through jokes?
Once science operations begin for James Webb, we’ll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here’s what everyone should know.
We’d like to think that judging people’s worth based on the shape of their head is a practice that’s behind us.
Playing and being creative shouldn’t stop when you grow up.
Our antipathy toward the natural world is bad. But it’s not too late to change.
When I was a teenager and music was still on cassettes, a mixtape was an act of love. In this episode, I’m putting together some of my favorite moments of 2019, strung together with minimal interruption from me.
It doesn’t matter where you’re from — music is an emotional powerhouse.
How do you write away the personal hole in your heart when that hole was left by a man half the world idolizes? Steve Jobs’ daughter, the writer Lisa Brennan-Jobs, on the process and effects of writing her beautiful memoir SMALL FRY.
We live in contradiction. How we confront that fact matters.
Isolation and empathy are by no means mutually exclusive.
When approached with wonder and awe, science is full of divine fingerprints.
Thankfully, there are ways to combat mental and physical fatigue, even in isolation.
The racing plane is hoped to be the fastest electric plane in existence.