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Carl Sagan liked to smoke weed. His essay on why is fascinating.
Turn on, tune in, and drop out and into a good psychedelic book.
Time management is a critical skill that, ideally, leads to increased productivity. However, managing time is a lot easier said than done — including ensuring that you do not overload […]
Facebook and Instagram are introducing new tools that let mobile users track and manage how they spend time on their apps, like a timer that reminds you when you’ve hit a self-imposed app use time limit, and an option to limit notifications.
When two different techniques give two different results, either someone is wrong, or something incredible is happening. Imagine you were a scientist attempting to measure some property of the Universe. […]
A little kindness goes a long way. Not being mean goes longer.
Philosophers often get depicted like sages in ivory towers without a practical or human side. A gossip-filled book from the 3rd century can fix that.
Christine Lagorio-Chafkin spent six years writing the definitive history of Reddit.
Our existence is finite, but that’s no reason for despair. Here’s a version of the story we all should hear at least once. This world, and for that matter, the entire […]
Although the great Martian dust storm of 2018 may have ended its life, its accomplishments will live on forever. Note: This article was originally published on January 25, 2019 on Forbes. […]
The widely beloved chef, writer and TV host Anthony Bourdain was found dead Friday morning at age 61. Here’s a brief look at the work and life that made him an international culinary star.
Explore a legendary philosopher’s take on how society fails to prepare us for education and progress.
LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will not only be the space-based successor to LIGO, but will predict black hole mergers up to years in advance. Across the Universe, innumerable masses […]
The ‘Great Polish Map of Scotland’ is the coolest map story you’ve never heard of.
History will remember Stephen Hawking for his many contributions to cosmology and astrophysics, but his beliefs about the future could soon prove just as important.
It will be the most extreme test of Einstein’s General Relativity ever. And we already have the data. With every year that goes by, the total amount of knowledge that humanity […]
Singer-songwriter Ryan O’Neal composes the songs of the cosmos.
The Great British Diversity Experiment found concrete steps that can increase diversity in companies.
Rejection can be soul-crushing, but what if there was an upside? Here’s how really listening to the word “no” can make you more successful.
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We speak about it, argue over it, and even fight wars for it. We know it when we see it. But just what is energy, anyway? When it comes to being […]
These great thinkers remind us that taking an unpopular, bold stance might not be madness.
When in Rome… do as the Romans do?
As individuals, we scientists are all flawed. But the enterprise of science rises above our individual shortcomings. The enterprise of science is perhaps the greatest achievement in all of human […]
The Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams (MILD) was originally developed in the 1970s by the American psychophysiologist Stephen LaBerge.
Philosophers can be pretty eccentric. Here we list seven of the most out there. Yes, Diogenes is included.
It’s no small secret that we are addicted to our phones. This so-called ‘dumb watch’ can help you check it less… and looks great, too.
The fascinating HBO documentary ‘Elvis Presley: The Searcher’ looks at Elvis’s practice of re-making black hits for his white audience. Was it cultural appropriation or just love of the material?
Flat Earth theory has enjoyed staying power since at least the 19th century despite being patently untrue. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the late Carl Sagan, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and other big thinkers will show you how to disprove this bad idea, all without having to take a journey into space.