A deadly myth has been manufactured from poor methods and wishful thinking.
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When you wish upon a star, it probably makes a difference who you are.
Shortly after planet Earth formed, life took a permanent hold on our surface. But just how common is such an outcome?
A team of scientists has warned that marketers seek to advertise in our dreams. Will our sleep be commercialized against our wishes?
An optical telescope with a massive 20-foot (6-meter) mirror has an eye-popping price tag of $11 billion.
Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.
I hate grading. I love teaching, though, and giving students feedback is teaching.
Only 2% of Alzheimer’s is 100% genetic. The rest is up to your daily habits.
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We can never hope for a future with no problems. The solutions to problems create new problems, which in turn require new solutions, as WIRED founder Kevin Kelly explained recently.
You can love a romantic partner, but also a pet, a book, God, or the sound of someone’s voice. We need many more words for love.
There really might be extraterrestrials out there, attempting to make contact. Here's how science, not fiction, is attempting to find them.
The old linear job model is obsolete. Our post-pandemic work lives are defined by options and flexibility.
Does your father say "I love you," or express it in another way?
Forgetfulness isn't always a "glitch" in our memories; it can be a tool to help us make sense of the present and plan for the future.
Total annihilation is a permanent threat.
“I need to think about the future. Will you help me?”
Money makes us do things we wish we didn’t, but why is that? Behavioral economists and neuroscientists decode psychological dynamics resulting from 25 million years of human evolution — all so you can make smarter financial decisions.
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?” Steinbeck writes.
Suppose that fetuses are persons. Since pregnant people are too, how should conflicts between them be settled?
It's better to pursue moral actions instead of the ephemeral state of happiness, according to the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
As AI evolves — and more robotic warfare systems are deployed — the nature of conflict could change beyond recognition.
Although saying the wrong thing could often get you killed in ancient civilizations, history shows that the ideal of free speech has deep roots.
In a nod to its addictive qualities, it was first dubbed “Some More.”
The apes taught sign language didn't understand what they were doing. They were merely "aping" their caretakers.
Lovers are parted from lovers, (grand)parents from children, families from their dead.
The fictitious 31st-century world portrayed by the series is actually quite a bit like our own in the 21st century.
Where the prime meridian meets the equator, a non-existent island captures our imagination — and our non-geocoded data.
It’s far less likely to wander into bizarre lies, emotional rants, and manipulative tangents.