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If you blinked—or if you were in the wrong market—you might have missed a commercial for Scientology during the Super Bowl. You probably also missed the Twitter pushback.
The Internet solves another mystery.
A primer on the amazing possibilities of mixed reality, augmented reality, and virtual reality technology.
Why do great minds argue for positions we find repulsive? Today, we find out why Robert Nozick was a libertarian.
A classic essay defines different ways to disagree, from the worst to the best, with lessons that ring true in our divisive times.
For many, their religion is a core part of their identity, the meaning they find in life, and their social world. Changing this crucial aspect of themselves will have significant psychological consequences.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Writer Kurt Andersen on passionate kookiness as the American Way.
“Our country doesn’t do many things well, but when it comes to big occasions, no one else comes close,” so claimed an instructor I heard at the gym this week. […]
Hunting trophies, by the thousands, lined the walls of his palaces and lodges.
While today profuse sweating is a social embarrassment, in the past it gave us an evolutionary advantage.
Middle America is tired of those latte-sipping liberals and their “elite media” hanging out in New York City, but Ariel Levy makes the case that Americans aren’t as different from one another as they’d like to think.
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A predictive-keyboard app has just written an utterly crazy new Harry Potter chapter and the internet loves it.
There is no blueprint for how humans deal with grief and the death of a loved one. But Ariel Levy has some helpful insight as to how to begin the process.
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Jordan Peterson is one of the most controversial public figures in recent years. Here’s a recap of some of his ideas.
Brewing beer is as much science as art, and here are four reasons why.
She made the world be the change that she wanted to see in herself. She thought local and acted global.
In an immersive virtual environment, what will it be like to kill?
A study published in Applied Cognitive Psychology suggests that believers struggle to understand the physical world.
We compiled a list of seven of the greatest public speakers of all time, people who forever changed the course of history with their words.
Scientists have been probing our solar system for extraterrestrial life.
The IAU has just approved a dozen new names for features on Pluto’s moon Charon. They draw from an array of famous authors, characters, mythical objects and one U.S. filmmaker.
The history of women in brewing goes back millennia where it was a respected profession. How did it help give rise to our modern image of witches?
The big, unknowable questions in life are seductive, but without small, trivial questions as insulation, those large mysteries can consume us.
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A recent psychology study examines the importance of intellectual humility in decision-making related to politics, health and work.
His guiding spirit Thomas helped the author make better financial decisions and take care of his health.
Imagining ourselves as no longer existing is, for most of us, terrifying. Buddhism may offer some reassurance.
There’s no escaping its vast power and utility for the human enterprise. Stories, great tales, and songs have all been written about the all-mighty dollar. Here’s 10 documentaries that we think you’ll enjoy.
If you check your phone in the middle of the night, it says something about you.