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Philosophy isn’t stuck in the past. Here are five texts to connect you with its ongoing dialogue.
Bertrand Russell shows us how to recognize emotional arguments smuggled into presumed statements of fact.
Einstein called his idea “abominable,” but the world of physics came around to embracing the views of Georges Lemaître.
His crime was so great, he was not only sentenced to death but his name was to be erased from memory.
While a squirrel’s life may look simple to human observers – climb, eat, sleep, repeat – it involves finely tuned cognitive skills.
Adrie Kusserow, an anthropologist and scholar of Buddhism, shares how her study of the religion and its history has reshaped her view of the world — and herself.
Narnia and early Middle-earth were pancake-esque — but their creators took differing views on de-globalization.
Rather than sending serial killer art to auctions, it should be sent to abnormal psychologists for research.
“Less is better” is not a catchy marketing slogan, but one doctor who didn’t shower for five years thinks there’s a lot of truth to it.
De-urbanized lifestyles can be aligned with basic Taoist principles — and remote workers are starting to feel the connection.
Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.
Various environmental phenomena can play tricks on our brain.
Shocked city dwellers who stared at it were blinded instantly, then the entire city caught fire.
Company culture is always evolving — sometimes for the worse.
Journaling helped Marcus Aurelius cultivate the emotional intelligence necessary to steer Rome through turbulent times.
An average undergraduate student in physics is better than the AI.
Most people have a distorted view of what being a scientist is like. Scientists need to make a greater effort to challenge stereotypes.
The space‑specific neurons in the owl’s specialized auditory brain can do advanced math.
Awe makes us feel smaller but also more connected to life and each other.
One of the winners. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, is now the fifth person in history to win two Nobels.
His plan to replace it with homegrown rice did not go well.
In a nod to its addictive qualities, it was first dubbed “Some More.”
Modern robotics are creating a kind of cultural paradox, where the best religion is the one that eventually involves no humans at all.
Could anyone still meet the Theoretical Minimum?
Researchers discovered something modern humans had never before seen—a flashy Neanderthal horn collection.
Everything is made of matter, not antimatter, including black holes. If antimatter black holes existed, what would they do?
You want your baby’s name to be unique, but so does everyone else.
Most popular songs are about love and heartache. But some great songs — albeit underrated and perhaps a bit weird — are about the cities we love.
In Kannauj, perfumers have been making monsoon-infused mitti attar for centuries.