De Beauvoir finds that the ‘strong woman’ is actually just bound to housework
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The view from way out there really puts things in perspective.
Detailed (and beautiful) information on 57 million crop fields across the U.S. and Europe are now available online.
Documentary explores astrobiology, astronauts, and the awe of it all.
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At high tide each night, bright lights predict the underwater future.
Templeton Prize winner Marcelo Gleiser on knowledge, the endless frontier.
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Can the duo make plant-based chicken taste “finger lickin’ good”?
Here’s why the Irish president believes students need philosophy.
Unwind the mind with these thought-provoking Alan Watts quotes.
Math trauma can follow people beyond grade school to harm their prospects well into adulthood.
Notre Dame was almost torched in 1871, when Communards set Paris’ major buildings ablaze.
The 8th century AD was a tough time to be a genius from a poor family in China. Poet and novelist Ha Jin on the tortured life of the legendary drunken poet Li Bai. Also: panpsychism, the value of idleness, and humanities education in America today.
Psilocybin doesn’t just make you trip; it can have lasting effects on how you see the world.
Here are 7 often-overlooked World Heritage Sites, each with its own history.
Sometimes you have to take the road less traveled.
The distance between the American dream and reality is expressed best through literature.
If you thought the Planck satellite just made temperature maps of the cosmic microwave background, this will astound you. The Milky Way, to human eyes, appears as simply a mix of […]
When the protection of academic freedom is compromised, scholarship and greater society suffer the effects.
He reminds us that meaning is wherever we choose to look.
The term “self-actualization” is often bandied about on the web, but how does one go about becoming self-actualized really?
If galaxies are cities in the Universe, how unfortunate that our ‘cosmic country’ is dissolving. On the largest cosmic scales of all, planet Earth appears to be anything but special. […]
These books will help you ideate more creatively.
The NSF’s new, cutting-edge solar observatory shows us the Sun as never before. Here’s why we need to know. On December 12, 2019, the world’s most powerful solar observatory — the National Science […]
The artifact will be opened on Sunday, for the first time in millennia, at an undisclosed location in Egypt.
The lack of tall, strong oak trees poses something of a problem for the restoration effort.
Our planet is rare, precious, and fragile. It’s up to all of us to be its steward. With the advent of rocketry and spaceflight, our cosmic perspective changed forever. The very […]
The summit of Europe’s most active volcano is also the world’s only decipoint.