You can learn a lot about life through literature’s most unrespectable and heinous characters.
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Ethicist and doctor Simon Whitney argues that society’s overly cautious approach to medical research is blocking breakthroughs.
AI programs like ChatGPT can create “thanabots” based on deceased loved ones’ digital communications, allowing us to talk with the departed.
Branding isn’t buzz — we’ve been doing it for thousands of years.
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What if your best friend was an informant?
To the Greek philosopher, all of our actions ultimately aim at our own pleasure.
Always look on the bright side of death.
Not only that, but AI learns what type of faces we like.
Albert Camus was a Franco-Algerian philosopher with some great insights on the meaning of life, why you should look to this life and not the next, and why suicide is a poor choice.
Successful forgers are remembered as great conmen, not artists. This is strange, considering their forgeries fooled even the most seasoned critics.
About 1 in 5 adults now say they have no religious affiliation, up from 1 in 50 in 1960.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
Science and the sacred both allow us to retain our sense of wonder, even as disaster seems to swirl around us.
It is little more than a fancy excuse for escapist fantasizing.
After 10,000 years of civilization, have we figured out what virtue is?
Dive into China’s profound intellectual legacy through five seminal texts that have shaped millennia of thought.
Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
George Washington, for example, was quite happy to engage in deception, if that deception would help protect the United States.
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How does the mind interact with the body? Nobody really knows — but these philosophers ventured an answer.
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Positivity psychologist, lecturer and author Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar shares techniques on how to unlock happiness at work.
Philosophy isn’t stuck in the past. Here are five texts to connect you with its ongoing dialogue.
Why, exactly, should you die for your child?
Only about 10% of patients survive cardiac arrest. Of the ones who do, many have amazing stories to tell.
In the future, people may look back with horror at how humans treated AI in the 21st century.
People tend to underestimate how much a friend they’ve lost contact with would enjoy a simple note saying “hi.”
Some classic books, like Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” remain controversial to this day.
Far from being a “dead” pursuit that focuses on old ideas, modern philosophy proposes and debates important, new concepts. All of us can learn from it.
Patients with amygdala damage rejected the widely accepted answer to the infamous “trolley problem,” saying that it “hurts too much.”
We are still new at this.