As more research on psychedelics appears, we need to take their therapeutic potential seriously.
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50 years after his assassination, a look back at five ways Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. changed the U.S.
The research isn’t all negative.
Democracies can fail. They usually do. Van Jones on how America might become functional again.
Scientists realize that fish are sentient and intelligent, though unfortunately, they also get depressed.
The social media behemoth wants you to use their platform less, not more, than before.
Your future happiness and success will depend on the double-edged sword of embracing new technology to stay connected, and being smart enough to unplug at the right time.
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Technical knowledge continues to be privileged over social knowledge.
The answer is a resounding yes—but not if it’s loaded with sugar and milk products.
Our way of life needs a skills upgrade, to reinstall certain old stoic ideas. Using your rights well needs “happiness bootcamp” skills.
A recent study examines the ways in which spouses affect an individual’s tendency to pursue challenging and rewarded opportunities.
When you’re in a midlife crisis, success can seem like failure.
While it can often be tempting to unfollow friends who have differing political views than you, one philosopher tells us why we should embrace, rather than shun, such challenges to our worldviews.
Many participants smoked and drank, and enjoyed the benefits of health and longevity anyway.
A new survey of 1,256 Americans finds out how much we dream—and have nightmares—about the same things.
Envisioning all possible outcomes is far healthier than only praying for the best.
The newest viral video is from… 1947?
‘Luck’ is the wrong word. The Universe cooperated, but we gave ourselves the opportunity by being prepared. It was already 28 years ago that the Hubble Space Telescope was launched […]
New studies show that friendships more often lead to happiness in old age than family.
At the same time MDMA is showing promise as a PTSD therapy, ecstasy is being cut with all sorts of nasty chemicals on the street.
Psychology professor Jean M Twenge argues that teens are suffering elevated levels of depression and loneliness, and their phones are to blame.
God has a twitter account, and it is full of hilarity as well as deep insights.
Emotions are the language of the unconscious, and in day-to-day life, they prevent us from sinking beneath an overwhelming flood of information.
Many great minds have plenty of bad things to say about democracy, but what about the people who think it is great?
As you live in our hyper-connected world, it may seem strange to realize that thousands of people still live in so-called uncontacted tribes, utterly cut off from modern civilization.
Stoicism and Buddhism are two of the oldest, and well known, schools of thought in the world. Would Marcus Aurelius, a famous Roman stoic, be a Buddhist today?
Elastic thinking is what endows us with the ability to solve novel problems and to overcome the neural and psychological barriers that can impede us from looking beyond the existing order.
Does working hard make you more money or does it just enrich shareholders? The concept of hourly wages could soon be eradicated.
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How much free will do you actually have? This week’s Comment of the Week is fantastic and raises an interesting debate. What do you think?