If we’re going to treat psychological suffering as effectively as we treat pneumonia and broken bones, we’d better think outside the box.
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India is a vast land, rich in history, beauty, and great ideas. Here, we want to introduce you to ten great minds in Indian thought. These ten thinkers span thousands of years, include several religions, and more than a few fields of expertise.
A US-based company is genetically creating proteins similar to bovine collagen to make leather from living cells without the need of animals.
Americans are, often with justification, regarded as not being versed in philosophy. This is a shame, as the United States and the colonies that proceeded it have produced many great thinkers
Dr. Gottman, a psychologist who studies relationships, explains the 5:1 rule.
We’re more lonely than ever and this is horrible. Equally horrible? We can’t bare to spend time alone.
When novelists and poets reveal their writing process we learn a great deal about our own development.
Stanford professor Robert Sutton offers a slew of suggestions for how to break up negative vibes in the office.
Researchers study the “paradox of happiness” to find out how get into “flow activities” that would make us happiest.
The philosopher believed we craved for something less pleasant.
Scientists and Imogen Heap team up to create the perfect song to make a baby happy.
If you haven’t finished your holiday shopping yet, consider these 10 gifts, good any time of year! One of the hardest things when it comes to holiday shopping is to find […]
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.
All 24 cantons would meet at St Stephen’s cathedral in Vienna
The pharmaceutical industry excels at exploiting the free market by making recovery often inaccessible.
A large-scale study of students in Maastricht provides valuable data on student performance.
Can big data help determine how happy we are? Using findings from Facebook and UC Berkeley, author Andrew Zolli shows how the levels of happiness we display online may not correlate with how happy we truly are. Featuring Zolli’s talk from the Aspen Ideas Festival.
No matter what the science says, there’s no excuse for cruel behavior to a colleague. Look out into the distant Universe as far as you possibly can, and you’ll come […]
Last week, the crew found themselves in the mirror Universe. Here’s what science has to say about that. Star Trek: Discovery entered their midseason hiatus on a terrific cliffhanger: they had […]
Funnily enough, some humans carry one of the very same genes.
Nietzsche loved aphorisms, and here we have collected 15 of his greatest hits.
In The Road to Character, David Brooks argues that our moral vocabulary is severely lacking.
Ice finally met fire on last night’s episode of Game of Thrones, and their first conversation proved a perfect case study in the distance between power and reality.
In her new book, professor of psychology Lisa Feldman Barrett proposes a radical new theory of emotions.
Polygamy has been denounced by the Mormon church for more than 100 years. So why does the stereotype persist?
Many people were upset when NPR tweeted out the Declaration of Independence.
A new study suggests that older couples may help their marriages by drinking together.
The event brought scholars and comedians together to take a look at what’s funny and why.
Research shows that people with heart problems and diabetes are being misdiagnosed. Solving that is going to take an overhaul of our medical system.
The deep dive into the mirror Universe, and the ethics of how we deal with purity and diversity, is just getting started. Life in the mirror Universe isn’t easy for anyone. […]