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You’d think we’d be over this fear by now.

When we see problems in the world, we’re quick to blame someone—anyone—who should be providing peace, love, and harmony. But the universe actually bends toward chaos and decay.

Throughout history, anarchists have been responsible for bombings and assassinations, including some very recent ones.

Beef, salt, and water is all the Canadian professor eats. Is that sustainable?

The controversy around the Torah codes gets a new life.

Voting. It’s important. But we don’t exactly make it a priority, do we? Other democracies have outshone the United States when it comes to innovating ways to encourage democratic participation.

In your Ostara bonnet…

This might sound crazy, but hear it out: What if we paid politicians higher salaries with bonus incentives?

It may come as a surprise to some to find that anarchism comes in as many flavors as Ben ‘n Jerry’s.

On hallucinating a teensy Virgin Mary in a water fountain, our weird relationship to fame, her stint as an elf-hunting camp counselor, and more in what feels like a 4 am college conversation with the inimitable Parker Posey.

Humanity is on the move. Fleeing war, oppression, poverty . . . millions worldwide leave their home countries daily in search of asylum. IT WILL BE CHAOS filmmakers Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo on what this means for Europe and the world.

“Life is brutal, and becoming resentful about your relative position is a way to make it more brutal,” says Jordan Peterson.

While the probiotic trend has been suspect at best, there is one therapeutic application that keeps holding up: fecal transplant.

The world’s getting hotter, and it’s getting more volatile. We need to start thinking about how climate change encourages conflict.

Could consciousness all come down to the way things vibrate?

“Anarchy” is often used as a synonym for chaos. Does the historical record match up with that? 

What is liberal America’s big, and possibly fatal, mistake? Failing to recognize its own extremists.

Are we standing on the brink of Mutually Assured Destruction?

Christine Lagorio-Chafkin spent six years writing the definitive history of Reddit.

50 years ago the city of Chicago erupted in a legendary police riot.

Catch up on the phenomenon known as ASMR, which is exploding in popularity and may be linked to the appeal of religion.

Google’s homepage doodle for today, June 22, honors the memory of renowned science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. It would have been her 71st birthday.

As individuals, we scientists are all flawed. But the enterprise of science rises above our individual shortcomings. The enterprise of science is perhaps the greatest achievement in all of human […]

Simple diagrams reflect straightforward grids that make navigation easy. Complex diagrams equal ‘messy’ street grids, making it harder to find your way.

What inspired the Mona Lisa, China’s Terracotta Warriors, and more?

We all know who Confucius was, but what did he teach?

There may be a fundamental reason why time travel, backwards, is impossible. We’ve all had the dream of traveling back in time. Whether there’s a wrong we want to right, […]

It may seem like the world’s going to hell in a hand basket, but the facts don’t support it.

The Flat Earth community revealed some of its newest theories and breakthroughs at its first convention in Birmingham, England last weekend.

As victor of WWII, America set out with its allies to rebuild the broken world through its greatest diplomatic effort in history: The Marshall Plan.