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It’s the first time a female superhero has ever scored her own film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Artificial intelligence has so far replaced more menial labor, but could it one day soon come for the more analytical positions in the economy like writers and reporters? What will become of journalism?
The Oedipal complex, repressed memories, penis envy? Sigmund Freud’s ideas are far-reaching, but few have withstood the onslaught of empirical evidence.
As long as we fail to name capitalism as a key cause of mass extinction, we will remain powerless to break its tragic story.
Do the clothes make the man? With the Diderot Effect, material goods can help forge your whole identity.
Unless we take action, climate change will have a major, far-reaching impact on the internet.
It may come as a surprise to some to find that anarchism comes in as many flavors as Ben ‘n Jerry’s.
While shuffling off their mortal coils, these giants of thought had some parting words.
Do not succumb to “funklessness”. Join us as we nerd out to a staggering degree on utopian afrofuturism, David Bowie, and the sci-fi-inflected music of the ‘70s. With Jason Heller, Hugo-award winning author of Strange Stars.
To explain the origin of everything, science needs to explain itself.
Two of our biggest science-fiction dreams might not remain fiction for much longer. Here’s how 21st-century science could make it real. For as long as human beings have looked up at […]
It’s not what you have, it’s what you do with it.
In her vivid, dreamlike new book of short stories, Florida is a humid, seething organism that wants to eat you. Snake-infested. Full of sinkholes. A thing to resist, get lost in, surrender to, and sometimes, temporarily escape.
Think Again like you’ve never heard it before. A trip deep into the oldest living folk music in the Western world — that of Epirus, Greece — and what it reveals about why we make music at all.
Authoritarian regimes have had a long history of targeting intellectuals who don’t agree with them. What kind of people get deported? We have a list of ten people whose work got them shipped out of Russia.
From the cosmic blast into another being’s mind, to rolling bliss or obedient mind-slavery, fictional drugs have it all.
Saudade: the untranslatable Portuguese word that names the presence of absence and takes melancholy delight in what’s gone.
These ten characters have all had a huge influence on psychology. Their stories continue to intrigue those interested in personality and identity, nature and nurture, and the links between mind and body.
NASA announced the five winners of the latest phase of its 3D-Printing Habitat Competition for designing the structures to be used by humans on Mars.
Machine learning has developed awareness of consequences for its actions. Oh, boy.
No standardized tests, no private schools, no stress. Finland’s education system is consistently ranked best in the world. Why isn’t America copying it?
Everybody is made happiest by purchasing experiences, right? A new study tells us to rethink our cliche.
Late night texts provide insights on America’s recreational drug use, documenting good and bad times with meth, cocaine, heroin, pills, marijuana, LSD, and ecstasy.
Zoologist Lucy Cooke explains evolution’s answer to non-consensual sex among spotted hyenas: an eight-inch pseudo-penis for all the ladies.
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To get a good night’s sleep, is it better to write down your achievements or the to-do list for the next day? Researchers tested the two different sleep techniques in the lab.
Recent books that are sure to add to your intelligence.
Richard Feynman once asked a silly question. Two MIT students just answered it.