Among history’s many thought leaders, Plato may sport the most impressive resume of the bunch. The Athenian philosopher founded the Academy. His Dialogues are required reading at every institution of […]
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Today’s young people are intelligent and kind, but they are overworked and burned out.
A skills gap analysis can help an organization prepare for change and become well-equipped to thrive in the future.
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At the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society in Michigan, retrieving sunken vessels is the order of the day. Here’s how they do it.
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Scientists want to use dream hacking devices to improve your creativity and memory.
A strange philosophical thought experiment forces us to ask if the world can be completely described in physical terms.
Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?
Popular diets view health as a calorie-crunching equation while excluding a critical variable: mental wellness.
Why saying, “I don’t know,” might be the best thing you can do.
Many have argued that free will is an illusion, but science does not support that.
If you’ve ever struggled with the strong force, this explanation is a life-saver. If you ask someone to think about some physical phenomenon that’s responsible for any sort of force […]
Understanding “why” may be the key to unlocking an AI’s imagination.
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From persuasion lessons to objection clinics, these sales training ideas have proven successful for a variety of organizations.
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at higher energies, something even grander happens?
Our huge, expanding Universe may truly be infinite. But if the set of possible quantum outcomes is also infinite, which “infinity” wins?
The model is almost eight hours ahead of a doctor’s recognition of a patient’s deterioration.
Fintech companies are using elements of video games to make personal finance more fun. But does it work, and what are the risks?
The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make “beams” out of them?
People around the world, mostly Generation Z, are obsessed with the look and feel of gothic, elitist universities. Why?
Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries in all the Universe. Is there some way to avoid “having to live with it?”
Why should it be considered impolite to discuss something so important to our long-term well-being?
Hidden variables aren’t ruled out, but they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness. Ever since the discovery of the bizarre behavior of quantum systems, we’ve been forced to reckon with […]
The mediocrity principle is often used to make claims about the abundance of life across the universe, but these claims are likely unfounded.