But most city dwellers weren’t seeing the science — they were seeing something out of Blade Runner.
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Many of his criticisms ring true today.
Can we stop mass shootings? The first step is collecting data, and these authors have done just that.
Yukio Mishima treated his life as if it were a story — one with a surprising and deadly final act.
Can thinking about the past really help us create a better present and future?
Philosopher Peter Singer broaches an uncomfortable truth about the Make-A-Wish Foundation and GoFundMe pages.
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The conventional wisdom may be wrong. Consulting Google for information about medical symptoms might not be as counterproductive as commonly thought, new research suggests.
A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths. For one, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public.
The pandemic has many people questioning whether they ever want to go back to the office.
One of the fundamental questions for those studying and advocating progress is around understanding what variables can move the needle for the type of progress that you might want to see in the world. It’s a key focus of the “progress studies” discipline and a question that has received increased attention from academics and public intellectuals in recent years.
Implicit bias may be outside your conscious control, but that doesn’t mean change is.
Music is often labelled a “universal language,” and according to the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, there is a good reason for that.
As a doctor, I am reminded every day of the fragility of the human body, how closely mortality lurks just around the corner.
The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?
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Hidden variables aren’t ruled out, but they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness. Ever since the discovery of the bizarre behavior of quantum systems, we’ve been forced to reckon with […]
She helped create CRISPR, a gene-editing technology that is changing the way we treat genetic diseases and even how we produce food.
Deniers will never stop misleading others. Here’s the truth. Every so often, advocates of a fringe theory — one that doesn’t fit the evidence as well as the mainstream theory — do what they can […]
Northwell Health is using insights from website traffic to forecast COVID-19 hospitalizations two weeks in the future.
History is not the story of great people directing the course of the world. It’s about networks. Sure, great people may have had an outsized pull on certain events. But […]
The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
A Stanford study explores the effect of multitasking on memory in young adults.
The European Union agreed on a list of 15 countries that would be allowed to travel in its bloc. U.S. citizens were not on it.
Even tyrants and despots offer wisdom worth heeding.
Work that can break down the body can also break down the mind.
If we are wreaking havoc on ourselves and the world, it is because we have become mesmerized by a mechanistic, reductionist way of thinking.
Among history’s many thought leaders, Plato may sport the most impressive resume of the bunch. The Athenian philosopher founded the Academy. His Dialogues are required reading at every institution of […]
Christmas was banned in 1647 and rebellions broke out across the country.