The Chinese government just banned the online sale of Bibles, yet another attempt at President Xi’s suppression of Christianity.
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The greatest danger to our planet is not pollution or climate change, but our own despair.
Simple diagrams reflect straightforward grids that make navigation easy. Complex diagrams equal ‘messy’ street grids, making it harder to find your way.
Name one French coastline. Great. Now name another. Can’t? Here are all 36.
SpaceX made history Tuesday after successfully launching its Falcon Heavy rocket into space, but not all are convinced any of that actually happened.
A team of Polish designers has just won a competition with its design for an inflatable skyscraper designed for use in emergency zones.
We aren’t lunarly exclusive. Earth has a few minimoons whizzing around us, including one that comes back into our orbit every 20 years or so.
The accelerated expansion of the Universe is one of the greatest puzzles today. Could this out-of-the-box idea explain it without dark energy? When it comes to our quest to understand the […]
The FIRE movement believes frugality is key to retiring in your 30s; others think the movement is about privilege more than prudence.
Every physical theory has constants in it. The gravitational constant is remarkably uncertain. When we first began formulating physical laws, we did so empirically: through experiments. Drop a ball off […]
Sometimes, you look in a nearby galaxy, and what you find beyond it will change everything. Einstein’s theory of General Relativity has withstood every test for more than a century. […]
We all know who Confucius was, but what did he teach?
Changing an unhealthy habit depends a lot on your belief that you can do it, something psychologists call self-efficacy. Take smoking, for example. Your belief that you are capable of […]
A new study from Harvard Business School finds open-office layouts actually inhibit face-to-face interaction and collaboration.
America isn’t immune to attempts to remove books from libraries and schools, here are ten frequent targets and why you ought to go check them out.
Even our scientific heroes can’t be right about everything. Let’s learn the lessons that they never did. In the 1960s, a young theoretical physicist named Stephen Hawking rose to prominence as […]
People often say, “I’m just not a math person,” but the truth is that no one’s brain is hardwired for math.
A recent study looks at whether collective apologies on behalf of countries may inspire hope that can lead to reconciliation.
Why is manipulating people morally wrong but influencing them is not? Here’s the fundamental distinction between manipulation and non-manipulative influence.
If you blinked—or if you were in the wrong market—you might have missed a commercial for Scientology during the Super Bowl. You probably also missed the Twitter pushback.
TMS might also help those with anxiety, PTSD, and traumatic brain injury.
We all want to help our children learn and a new study shows that encouraging curiosity might be the best way to do it.
And thanks to a new technique and set of observations, we think we know exactly where to find them. At the center of practically every galaxy is a supermassive black hole, […]
Researchers say they’ll someday be able to recreate experiences, perceptions, and sensations with a device the size of a backpack.
The game is afoot! It seems Shakespeare borrowed language from his contemporaries more directly than we previously realized.
“To promote the development of a commercial asteroid resources industry for outer space in the United States and to increase the exploration and utilization of asteroid resources in outer space.”
VR technology shows no signs of slowing down. We need to start asking the question of how we deal with those of us who become addicted to the wonders VR offers.
A new study from the Great Recession shows that anxiety around money is not helping us. How do we stop worrying?
With every second that goes by, tens of thousands of star disappear from our reach. And it’s getting worse. It’s been nearly a century since scientists first theorized that the Universe […]