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In each of our minds, we draw a demarcation line between beliefs that are reasonable and those that are nonsense. Where do you draw your line?
Godfrey Hounsfield’s early life did not suggest that he would accomplish much at all.
It is little more than a fancy excuse for escapist fantasizing.
A 2020 study revived a longstanding controversy over Christopher Columbus’ claims of marauding cannibals in the Caribbean.
How many tins of beans make a stockpile, and when does a basement become a bunker?
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Porcine gene edits may allow such transplants without rejection.
Mammals have a history stretching back 325 million years. To study that ancient history is to know our own origins.
Pencil Kings will guide you from beginner to mastery with industry-leading teachers from Marvel and DreamWorks.
It might seem like science and faith are at war, but the two have a historical synergy that extends back in time for centuries.
Writers, filmmakers, and mythologizing biographers tend to imagine innovation originates with a lone genius who has “the spark,” that light-bulb moment when the path from inspiration to world-altering invention reveals […]
No matter what physical system we consider, nature always obeys the same fundamental laws. Must it be this way, and if so, why?
New ideas inevitably face opposition. A new book called “The Human Element” argues that overcoming opposition requires understanding the concepts of “Fuel” and “Friction.”
If it wasn’t a singularity, how small could it have been? Today, when you look out in any direction as far as the laws of physics allow us to see, the […]
Augustine’s theology came to define Christianity, but there was a rival theology.
If Rome was not built in a day, why do you think you can be?
These 5 research-backed tips can turn bad habits into financial gain.
Smoke taint from wildfires is gross, even to wine amateurs.
JWST has seen more distant galaxies than any other observatory, ever. But many candidates for “most distant of all” are likely impostors.
Jean Paul Sartre summed up the existentialist idea of “bad faith” through a waiter who acted a bit too much like a waiter.
How can you maximize the amount of love and happiness in your life? One of history’s greatest scientists found the answer: with math.
Those bananas you love are Cavendish bananas, and they’re probably about to go extinct.
After the unrelenting negativity of 2020, we may need a refresher on the benefits of a positive affect.
When people pick the greatest scientist of all-time, Newton and Einstein always come up. Perhaps they should name Johannes Kepler, instead.
A fairly old idea, but a really good one, is about to hit the store shelves.
The sudden prevalence of an artery in the forearm is evidence that we’re still very much a work in progress.