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.
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New research from UC Davis shows forty volunteers still experiencing cognitive gains seven years after an intensive retreat.
“Enforcing language norms is a way of enforcing power structures.”
Or maybe it’s already begun.
Here’s why Latin American cities are the deadliest in the world.
The widely beloved chef, writer and TV host Anthony Bourdain was found dead Friday morning at age 61. Here’s a brief look at the work and life that made him an international culinary star.
Our empathy is getting better, but universal? No way.
The concept of non-action might just be the most powerful action to take for curbing anxiety.
Forty percent of Americans get less than seven hours of sleep per night. But there’s another key ingredient we’re missing: dreams.
We often bicker and argue over what our national heroes believed in. Why did Dr. King believe in moving towards socialism?
An AI watchdog supported by Elon Musk releases a horrifying new film warning about the dangers of autonomous weapons in the near future.
Last month, the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons released more than 6,000 prisoners early. The Sentencing Commission reduced their sentences retroactively. And the Senate is considering a bipartisan bill […]
Could the upcoming Winter Olympics stand as a turning point, or will it be more of the same?
NASA and SETI invite the public to nickname a small icy world, or pair of worlds, in the distant Kuiper Belt ahead of a New Horizons 2019 flyby.
Global security expert Richard A. Clarke explains the traits of a “Cassandra”—someone who predicts colossal disasters—and why people very rarely listen to their warnings.
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The history of women being elected to offices of supreme power is short. Here are 10 women who have made the most of that time.
Hans Monderman believed that societies could make roads safer by making drivers more uncertain, and therefore alert.
As more intellectuals seek a common ground between the left-right divide, these ten books offer insights on how to navigate challenging topics.
A physicist demonstrates how life may be a predictable product of thermodynamics.
Author and music producer Kabir Sehgal finds instruction on the true value of money running through the world’s sacred texts.
“Buddhist psychology and Western psychotherapy both hold out hope for a more flexible ego, one that does not pit the individual against everyone else in a futile attempt to gain total surety.”
This week, Bill Nye tackles one of the most complicated hypotheticals of all time.
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North Korea has a long history of making bellicose threats that defy global norms. So does that mean the country’s leaders are irrational, and will act irrationally?
Americans are, often with justification, regarded as not being versed in philosophy. This is a shame, as the United States and the colonies that proceeded it have produced many great thinkers
If people figured out how to get along before religion, asks Frans de Waal, do we really need it?
“At times, it seems as if we are condemned to try to understand our own time with conceptual frameworks more than half a century old.” Historian Niall Ferguson says it’s time for an update.
Google is closing in on achieving a major quantum computing milestone.
Over 1,100 teens in Australia exhibited low self-esteem and aggressive behavior linked to late-night phone and social media usage.
Unpredictable winters? Seasons that don’t line up? It’s possible with the right configuration, says physics. “Lord of Light! Come to us in our darkness. We offer you these false gods. Take […]
How likely are you to help a stranger? What if you were in a war zone? If you think that the desperation of conflict really brings out the worst in people, you might be surprised.