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In 1934, American Communists translated a Stalinist book about revolution into a children’s game. Curiously, it didn't catch on.

The "island rule" hypothesizes that species shrink or supersize to fill insular niches not available to them on the mainland.

Humanity can avoid catastrophe — if we look beyond our blinkered present.

Only talk about the weather?

To understand Vincent van Gogh, we must first debunk the myth of the tortured artist. Van Gogh believed his illness inhibited his creativity.

Art criticism is inherently subjective. Still, many critics have tried to make a case for why some of the world’s most celebrated books are in fact terribly written. 

Considering the perspectives of others has important benefits for individuals and for society. There is one easy way to do it.

It is through speaking and listening that human beings become who they are.

Historians have been able to piece together a clear picture of how the average Roman citizen spent their waking hours.

You don’t need to ride into the danger zone to take advantage of TOPGUN’s life and career lessons.

The Virtual Metaverse will be for gaming and other short duration uses, while the Augmented Metaverse will revolutionize society.

Brands like BMW, Walmart, and IBM are seeing big wins from the use of gamification in corporate training. Here's how.

For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.

Volunteering can feel great and make good things happen. Now we know it promotes your health too.

The major temples seem much more interesting than what also appears on the landscape: apparently random mounds of earth.

The new trust busting battles begin.

The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.

In 2018, The New York Times published a comprehensive expose on the burgeoning crypto movement that detailed the luxurious lives of the newly crypto rich. The article, aptly titled, “Everyone […]

A therapist explains acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).

We have been rejecting science for far too long. We all need to embrace it. For as long as human civilization has existed, those societies that have embraced science have had […]

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The organization argues that there is no evidence for this claim.

Nurturing several relationships at once can empower us to build a life so rich that when we lose one love among many, we don't feel as if we've lost 'everything.'

Job hopping can be a smart career move for many employees, but only if they do it right. Here's how.

AI may help organizations overcome unconscious biases in hiring and increase diversity.

Today millions are celebrating the resurrection of Christ, yet there were many gods before him with similar stories.

Because intelligence is not the same thing as rationality.

It is possible to eat fast food and stay true to the keto diet. Just be wary of eliminating everything from life (and avoid the sauces).

"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. 

Men are barbarians, while women are civilizing. Or at least, that's how the stereotype goes.