All the prayers in the world to the Flying Spaghetti Monster probably won’t help.
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Is Juche an ideology, a scam, or a very strange religion?
The Royole Corporation beat Samsung to the punch when it recently released the world’s first commercially available folding smartphone.
Our culture has its own mistaken assumption: that the individual is an autonomous human intellect independent from the social environment.
Most people don’t just think the world should be run meritocratically, they think it is meritocratic.
How do companies keep getting you to buy the “latest and greatest” iteration of the product you already own? By testing the boundaries.
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What inspired the Mona Lisa, China’s Terracotta Warriors, and more?
Early reports show that it works, as odd as the approach may seem to some fontologists.
What would you do if money was no object?
Richard Feynman wrote a lot of things. Here, you can read his most touching letter.
Beef, salt, and water is all the Canadian professor eats. Is that sustainable?
A neuroscientist argues that da Vinci shared a disorder with Picasso and Rembrandt.
Social entrepreneur Miki Agrawal explains what makes a perfect business partner.
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Guns as currency. Guns as status. Guns as the power of the unpredictable. Stanford Historian Priya Satia on how we got where we are today.
Edward Witten is a genius among geniuses.
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From the cosmic blast into another being’s mind, to rolling bliss or obedient mind-slavery, fictional drugs have it all.
It looks like a medieval torture device when sprung open. But it might prevent any more smashed screens.
If you think it expanded faster than light-speed, you need to read this. If the Universe is 13.8 billion years old, and the speed of light is truly our cosmic speed […]
Writers need to understand their role in the storytelling process, says bestselling author Martin Amis.
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Yes, life exists in our Universe. No, that statement doesn’t equal science. Imagine you’ve encountered a natural phenomenon you want to understand better, but don’t have the tools to do so. […]
Haley, who’s at times been both a supporter and critic of the president, reportedly “shocked” White House officials by announcing the end of her two-year tenure as a U.N. ambassador.
Think walking is void of philosophy? Nietzsche and Gros are here to say you’re wrong.
Why is only 10% of the population left-handed? There are a few new scientific clues pointing to the answer.
Culture determines how mental illness or aberrant mental behavior is viewed and dealt with.
Scientists are investigating whether it’s possible to give modern elephants an ancient boost by reviving woolly mammoth DNA—all to curb climate change.
Einstein didn’t like the schools he went to, how would he improve them?