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The friendly side of North Korea. Men at sea, dancing! Monty Python, of course, and more!
“A serious party neglects the underlying virtues of playfulness and generosity that make a party authentic.”
Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman hypothesizes we evolved to experience a collective delusion — not objective reality.
The Avengers movies have done a marvelous job melding science and story.
Nontraditional education options are on the rise.
Like Stevenson, Tolkien and other creators of fantasy worlds, Ursula K. Le Guin was a cartographer as well as a writer
The Canadian professor has an extensive collection posted on his site.
Legislators push to keep cursive in their schools’ curricula, but experts seem split as to whether it’s necessary.
Some of them were surprisingly astute.
In Natural Causes, journalist Barbara Ehrenreich questions our obsession with wellness.
President Trump has called for Silicon Valley to develop digital precogs, but such systems raise efficacy concerns.
The researchers created a special polymer that can make robots repair themselves.
This is the first study to explore not only what percentage of people in the general population choose to watch videos of graphic real-life violence, but also why.
The design ethicist did not hold back his concerns when talking to political leaders.
Barbara Tversky takes an outdated idea to task in Mind in Motion.
Few students will become architects, but architecture may be able teach them more about real-life problem-solving than geometric proofs.
Writer Michael Hobbes says there are too many stereotypes about millennials.
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The comics titan worked for more than half a century to revolutionize and add nuance to the comics industry, and he built a vast community of fans along the way.
Was Jesus a real historical figure? Here’s what we know.
Hollywood writer’s rooms are notorious boys clubs: men often outnumber the women by 8 to 1. Nell Scovell has been defying that statistic her entire career.
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Is it “perverseness,” the “death drive,” or something else?
Notes from the Fog author Ben Marcus on Elon Musk, the weird existential joys of the reality TV show Castaways, and whether we will eat in the future.
When approached with wonder and awe, science is full of divine fingerprints.
The dogs’ ability to recognise and process human faces surpasses even that of monkeys. This newly-identified brain region may be the reason why.
Quoth the parrot — “Squawk! Nevermore.”
The term socialism makes political discourse difficult. Should we do away with it altogether?