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He was also a eugenicist — but at least he could draw pretty pictures.
The shift from steam to electricity was inevitable — but some foresaw it earlier than others.
Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
The first “running machine” — later known as the bicycle — symbolizes a key design idea.
Many key inventions were unique: one-offs.
Perhaps wormholes will no longer be relegated to the realm of science fiction.
An average undergraduate student in physics is better than the AI.
We’ve made god-like figures out of hard-charging CEOs — but it’s a bad idea to get high on your own supply.
A new model of the Antikythera mechanism reveals a “creation of genius.”
Daydreaming can be a pleasant pastime, but people who suffer from maladaptive daydreaming are trapped by their fantasies.
Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.
Creative people are better able to engage brain systems that don’t typically work together.
The great philosopher spent the final portion of his painful life in a vegetative state. Did illness get him there, or was it his own philosophy?
The transformational change driven by AI will elevate neurodiversity inclusion as an organizational asset, argues Maureen Dunne.
Studio Ghibli movies celebrate the natural world using a very Japanese mixture of Shinto, Buddhist, and Daoist themes.
Even without the greatest individual scientist of all, every one of his great scientific advances would still have occurred. Eventually.
Delay the instant gratification of online knowledge and first seek out the wisdom within yourself.
Elon Musk suggested remote-controlled, vibrating anal beads. Thankfully, there are more mundane explanations.
According to literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, Dostoevsky’s talents were on par with those of William Shakespeare.
“Salvator Mundi” sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?
Soviet censorship was thorough yet fallible.
From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here’s a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.
Labeling thinkers like Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs as “other” may be stifling humanity’s creative potential.
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Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.
Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.
Despite being called the “dismal science,” economics impacts our lives every day. Here, we look at seven of the greatest economists in history.
Unless you confront your theory with what’s actually out there in the Universe, you’re playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.
Will and Ariel Durant were praised for their ability to look at the big picture without losing sight of its little details, even if they did miss some of them.