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Elegance, beauty, and mathematical precision makes for a compelling story and an exquisite model. But it doesn’t make it right. Scientific theories, at their best, are simple, straightforward, full of predictive […]
There is no doubt that the historical Jesus, the man who was executed by the Roman State in the first century CE, was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew.
Practical philosopher Andrew Taggart talks about what is an excellent human life, what are the first steps to achieving it and what a society without work looks like.
It’s been said that string theory physicist Michio Kaku believes in God, but the truth is it depends on what “God” means.
Russian workers are being taught the art of smiling in order to seem more welcoming to the 1.5 million tourists expected to attend the 2018 FIFA World Cup this week […]
Although the great Martian dust storm of 2018 may have ended its life, its accomplishments will live on forever. Note: This article was originally published on January 25, 2019 on Forbes. […]
The stunning Super-Kamiokande is hidden beneath a mountain in Japan to detect neutrinos shot from supernovas.
From the birth and deaths of stars to the largest structures in the Universe, Hubble shows us what we’d never see otherwise. When it comes to the Universe itself, perhaps […]
There’s got to be a thousand ways to reclaim the past, but for Tara Westover, story was the only one that could contain all of it.
On Sept. 2, a fire spread through Rio de Janeiro’s National Museum, devouring the historic building and most of its 20 million culturally and scientifically important items. We look at nine priceless artifacts and collections likely lost in the blaze.
New research finds evidence that the gravitational pull of Jupiter and Venus has been warping our orbit every 405,000 years, at least as far back as 215 million years ago.
On September 27, 1972, scientists performed the first test of Bell’s inequality. God does play dice with the Universe, after all. One of the most puzzling and counterintuitive aspects of quantum […]
You can learn good design through these books. Most of which is avoiding bad design.
Bringing virtual reality into the classroom boosts intellectual confidence and defeats the naysayer in your mind.
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In the Western world, there’s a constant pressure to be happy. Paradoxically, this makes people more prone to anxiety and depression.
Name one French coastline. Great. Now name another. Can’t? Here are all 36.
There’s no such thing as a theory that’s too beautiful to be wrong, if it doesn’t agree with experiment. The history of physics is filled with great ideas that you’ve […]
These maps offer a glimpse of what’s been lost – or rather, destroyed – by previous generations.
Are all those drunk animals on YouTube actually drunk? Zoologist Lucy Cooke examines what’s really going on when animals go, er, wild.
Why do we work for five days and then take two days off? The answer might surprise you.
Singer-songwriter Ryan O’Neal composes the songs of the cosmos.
Reddit can reveal a lot, depending on how you interpret the data.
What inspired the Mona Lisa, China’s Terracotta Warriors, and more?
For the Pluto fans, another sad state of affairs: your favorite world won’t make it. Nothing on Earth lasts forever, and that’s a truth that even extends to all the objects […]
You can name a dozen rock stars on drugs, but can you name the philosophers who partook? We’re here to help.
The probe, no larger than a car, will be the closest a man-made object has ever gotten to the sun. We will be able to study and see it like we’ve never seen it before.
America isn’t immune to attempts to remove books from libraries and schools, here are ten frequent targets and why you ought to go check them out.
Having trouble finding the meaning of life? Nietzsche had the same problem. His philosophy offers us a few suggestions for finding the solution.