In a world without clocks, people used common activities in place of time units. How long it took you to go to the toilet mattered.
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From the Palace of the Soviets to The Illinois, these unmade buildings would have taken the art of architecture to whole new heights.
Computers are growing more powerful and more capable, but everything has limits
The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.
Humanity is in trouble. Here’s how aliens could help.
Better cognitive control over our decisions can stave off disappointment in our actions.
From Æthelred the Unready to Halfdan the Bad Entertainer, these strange epithets colored the legacy of four rather unlucky historical figures.
Give yourself (and others) a break.
Aiming to unlock the secrets of his unconscious mind, Jung experimented with intensive daydreaming.
The second law of thermodynamics tells us that entropy always increases. But that doesn’t mean it was zero at the start of the Big Bang.
Many still consider hypnosis more of a cheap magician’s trick than legitimate clinical medicine.
Three reasons why a radically better future is more likely than we think.
Even with the quantum rules governing the Universe, there are limits to what matter can withstand. Beyond that, black holes are unavoidable.
Tough and cutthroat leaders are celebrated in a results-driven culture — but there is another path to C-suite success.
Modern robotics are creating a kind of cultural paradox, where the best religion is the one that eventually involves no humans at all.
From the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang (and even before) to our dark energy-dominated present, how and when did the Universe grow up?
Just 13.8 billion years after the hot Big Bang, we can see objects up to 46.1 billion light-years away. No, this doesn’t violate relativity.
The Big Bang theory is not threatened, but astrophysicists have some explaining to do.
Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where’s everyone else?
There are two methods to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. The results do not agree with each other, and this is a big problem.
The miniaturization of particle accelerators could disrupt medical science.
The Multiverse fuels some of the 21st century’s best fiction stories. But its supporting pillars are on extremely stable scientific footing.
Take a hint from Einstein and Mozart — unplug and make peace with some degree of failure.
Even with the best technology imaginable, you’d probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.
It’s literally the one and only trick that separates top-notch physicists from crackpots, dropouts, and those who can’t cut the mustard.
The problem of the electroweak horizon haunts the standard model of cosmology and beckons us to ask how deep a rethink the model may need.
Some 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe became hot, dense, and filled with high-energy quanta all at once. Here’s what it was like.
In ancient Rome, collective bathing was the norm. In the West today, it’s the exception — and that’s too bad.
Tech entrepreneur Alvin Wang Graylin sketches out a bold new age of AI-led enlightenment underscored by compassion.
Humanity can avoid catastrophe — if we look beyond our blinkered present.