Retired astronaut Ron Garan believes that before we can begin solving our problems, we must understand our interrelatedness through the “orbital perspective.”
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Zen masters often have strikingly different ideas about how to live and attain enlightenment.
Environmental activists want us to feel “flight shame” if we can take a train, instead. But this isn’t entirely realistic, even in Europe.
The secret may lie in an old idiom: “Sleep on it.”
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that we often don’t truly want to obtain what we think we desire.
Michael Faraday’s 1834 law of induction was the key experiment behind the eventual discovery of relativity. Einstein admitted it himself.
The expanding Universe, in many ways, is the ultimate out-of-equilibrium system. After enough time passes, will we eventually get there?
The idea that consciousness emerges naturally alongside intelligence could be an anthropocentric distortion.
Each of us carries our own version of the Multiverse in our heads.
Acclaimed writer Mauro Javier Cárdenas used AI in his latest work to surprising effect.
Too many companies fail to recognize that “the deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated” — but the solution is easy.
Every organization has a power block of dutiful but unappreciated talent. Here’s an effective plan for engagement.
Marketing expert Jonah Berger explains how simple tweaks to your word use can have a huge impact on team communication.
Twin Health lets patients with diabetes see what’s happening inside their own body and can model each patient’s unique metabolism.
Too many leaders create an imbalance between thinking and doing — but a clear vision can be sharpened through deep reflection.
If the daily grind feels like Sartre’s phony act of “bad faith,” Heidegger’s sense of “being” can help redefine your role.
All human development, from large cities to small towns, shines light into the night sky.
Expressing gratitude encourages others to continue being generous, promoting a cycle of goodness.
To do more, it sometimes pays to do nothing at all.
The researchers rebuked writers, scholars, and public figures for lazily perpetuating the notion of widespread gender bias in academic science.
The false assumption the Multiverse relies on is that something which exists requires an explanation.
MIT researchers design glue that mimics the sticky substance barnacles use to cling to rocks.
Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 confirmed exoplanets — very few of which resemble Earth.
In December 2022, a company called BioAge Labs published findings on a drug that worked to prevent muscular atrophy, or the loss of muscle strength and mass, in older people.
If someone can make you feel insecure, incomplete, and inadequate, they then can present themselves as the solution you need.
People discovered prehistoric fossils long before Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species.” The remains of these unknown creatures often puzzled their discoverers.
People engage in creative thinking every day, whether they realize it or not.
Digital analyses of Enlightenment-era letters are teaching us a thing or two about Locke, Voltaire, and others.
The world’s “most produced living playwright” wins out over other contestants, including Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood.