A number of important women are working outside mainstream media to build platforms that address the gray areas in challenging topics.
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“People should be free to walk down the street without being watched by the government.” — ACLU and a coalition of civil rights groups
As more intellectuals seek a common ground between the left-right divide, these ten books offer insights on how to navigate challenging topics.
What are we really talking about when we debate the existence of God?
A color you’ll never find in a star is responsible for the universal color of star-forming regions. If you look through a telescope’s eyepiece, distant galaxies always appears white. Spiral-shaped […]
We tend to treat death and dying as a somber and serious event, but what if it doesn’t have to be that way?
Atheism has been called many things over the years. Is it a cult, and what is a cult anyway?
It took more than 9 billion years for Earth to form: the only known planet housing life. But it could have happened much, much sooner. The cosmic story that unfolded following […]
In about 500 pages of documents, Facebook responded to questions from U.S. senators about privacy, monopoly, and political discourse on the world’s largest social media platform.
For many, their religion is a core part of their identity, the meaning they find in life, and their social world. Changing this crucial aspect of themselves will have significant psychological consequences.
If you thought LIGO’s recent discoveries were profound and unusual, wait until you meet OJ 287. Recently, LIGO has revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe by discovering merging black holes. The […]
Why do great minds argue for positions we find repulsive? Today, we find out why Robert Nozick was a libertarian.
The U.S. government has shut down 18 times in the past four decades, but this most recent instance has proven unique.
Prince William and Kate Middleton have welcomed their third child to the royal family. Find out where the new royal baby falls in the line of succession to the throne.
Jordan Peterson is one of the most controversial public figures in recent years. Here’s a recap of some of his ideas.
Multitasking has been shown to diminish our ability to learn, stress us out, and kill our productivity. Here are some techniques to limit multitasking and help us regain our lost time.
“The starting point for understanding inequality in the context of human progress is to recognize that income inequality is not a fundamental component of well-being.”
A massive solar project has just been completed, and its specs are impressive.
We need a public mature enough to recognize that policy decisions and actions are more relevant to leadership than professed beliefs.
San Francisco takes a bold new step regarding marijuana laws and convictions.
The US is arguably the most scientifically and technologically advanced society in the world, and yet at the same time the most religious of Western societies.
A longtime debate over Buddhism’s religiosity has drawn a line between metaphysics and action.
With a 5-10 year warning, we could develop a plan to change an asteroid’s trajectory.
Is “science broken” or self-correcting? And who is going to do the grown-up thing and fix the game (instead of scoring points within it)?
In his latest book, Fantasyland, Kurt Andersen covers the first five hundreds years of American magical thinking.
Why are we so drawn to supernatural beliefs?
It’s one of the most common tropes in science fiction. But which movies actually get the science right? The way we travel through time, at a speed of one second per […]
A new study has found a mechanism that links poor sleep with deterioration of brain function.
There are many people who preach the supposed benefits of psychedelics, but none do it as well, nor as reliably, as these philosophers and scientists.
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