From its symbolism within the Seven Kingdoms, to its political allegory for all of us beyond it, the season seven finale is an epic set-up for the final showdown.
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In his new book, Why Buddhism is True, Robert Wright admits he’s bad at meditation—and that’s part of his success.
The stories in Shakespeare’s plays and ‘Game of Thrones’ are often bloody, but which are ultimately more violent?
What does it mean for spooky action at a distance if distances aren’t real, but just the way they look to us?
David McCandless hilarious classification of modern device-dependent, internet-obsessed mental disorders.
In his new book, Atlantic senior editor Derek Thompson argues for more disfluent feeds in our social media diet.
If people who experience near-death experiences have less fear of death, could an out-of-body experience through virtual simulation lead to the same result?
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Every year, companies try to do things better, to find the most effective way to complete some task or to improve overall productivity. Employee learning programs play a massive part […]
Polymaths are people who have excelled in diverse pursuits, and several of those polymaths left us with some very practical advice on how to succeed.
There’s no science in this episode of science fiction… but there’s a lot of suspicious happenings that no one’s noticing. Following up on the best episode of the season, thus […]
Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats proposes neuroscience-based fashion.
Einstein believed his greatest blunder to have been the retraction of one of his equations but, as writer David Bodanis tells, the great scientist’s misstep actually happened immediately after.
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Gravitational waves and spacetime ripples have so much more to do with the Universe than just merging black holes. “The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one […]
Author Jonathan Safran Foer on the two surprising qualities successful writers need.
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It isn’t just the morality that’s dubious in the newest iteration of Star Trek. “If I die trying but I’m inadequate to the task to make a course change in the […]
His Holiness Pope Francis wants to see the end of two things in this world: red sauces at diplomatic dinners, and arrogance.
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Spontaneous, deep talk on surprise topics. Historian and New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb on interspecies ethics, the limits of civil discourse, and mathematical symmetry as the defining principle of the universe.
A new extension suggests that you follow people you don’t agree with. Will this help pop your bubble?
“The most important, obvious realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see.”
The political and economic ideas of socialism are coming back into fashion.
Unlike social media, email is especially seductive as its content is specific to you. Author Cal Newport offers tips for breaking free from this constant distraction.
How do you win a Nobel Prize in Literature? First you must get nominated, then it gets hard.
New Here One earbuds aim to bring enhanced human hearing to market.
Glacier McGlacierface? Not likely. NASA has set some classy themes that will guide the naming of geographical features of Pluto and its moons.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Fiction writer and environmentalist T.C. Boyle on the crazy, contested world we might not be able to inhabit much longer, and what we’ll do after that.
Revenue from tattoo removal services have increased 440% over the last decade. How can we learn to live with regret?
Astrophysicist Michael J. I. Brown offers some guidelines for identifying fake or bad science.
Virtual reality and psychedelics are paving new paths for treating mental health.
One writer’s journey through a video game that can only be completed by writing.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Jace Clayton AKA DJ/Rupture on sleuthing for beauty and surprise in the digital-musical landscape.