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Your ring-to-index finger ratio can tell a lot about what you’re good at and even what mental disorders you are prone to.
If Will Allen’s documentary, Holy Hell, teaches us one thing, it’s that there’s no easy answer.
Who was the father of American photojournalism? Here’s a look at the Civil War work of Mathew Brady.
A brain-computer music interface system allows four patients to compose their own string quartet.
Some patients who went through gender reassignment surgery reported feeling just as out of place. A few were even suicidal.
Not faster than 299,792,458 m/s, but faster than light moves through anything other than vacuum! “You are both fools. You cannot see thoughts, or angels. One is an abstract, the other […]
A new study from Cornell University shows how metaphors influence our ability to be impressed by genius and uncovers a gender hook – it seems we prefer to conceive of male genius as an exciting idea explosion, and female genius as a long, hard labor of hard work.
Entrepreneurs share enormous amounts of time together, and develop a unique brand of intimacy, says relationship expert Esther Perel.
Our inherent response mechanisms were programmed long ago; implicit biases are reactionary, volatile, largely under the radar of conscious awareness. They do not imply blanket racism.
Bees help pollenate much of our crops. Without them, the food supply is doomed.
An explanation of why clean coal is just fiction, or at best a climate-change denier’s fantasy.
As mankind raises its eyes to Mars and asks, “How do we get there?”, we might need to ask, “Should we go?”. Carl Sagan said we may not be entitled to visit a potentially inhabited planet.
How do we make fair contracts? These guys figured it out, and their work has implications in ethical and business questions about companies like Enron and privatized prisons.
If only men would vote, Trump would be the next president. If only women voted, Clinton would win by an even bigger landslide.
We might have been spared the worst of Hurricane Matthew, but the underlying science is informative at any time! “She didn’t even know what she’d do when she got back to […]
Will this EU power be the first to prove that a modern, industrialized nation can make major shifts towards cleaner, greener energy without catastrophe?
Find a penny, pick it up, all year long, you’ll have that f*cking penny. There is a mounting consensus that the US should retire its tiniest coin.
As nine states consider legalization or medical use in November, anti-marijuana advocates are relying on old and false claims.
Instead of an autoimmune disorder, scientists now believe a conspiracy of pathogens cause it.
Edward Slingerland offers two possible ways to sneak up on becoming effortless without making a direct effort to do so.
If you were betting on LIGO, you bet wrong. Just like everybody else. “‘Topology is destiny,’ he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time.” –Neal Stephenson One […]
The mystery behind star KIC 8462852 (aka Tabby Star) continues. Many scientists have proposed ideas but all explanations (so far) seem as unlikely as the Dyson Sphere theory.
An America where marijuana is legal could be right around the corner. It’s a cross-generational cause that is finally starting to have its day on the ballot.
A movement grows to re-examine Columbus’s legacy and abolish his holiday.
The dark horsehead nebula isn’t dark at all, but only if you look at the invisible forms of light. “If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are […]
A new study links reward-seeking to learning in teen brains.
Some fear we are meddling with forces too powerful for human control.
Scientists find a surprising relationship between yawning and brain size.
Christina Smolke, a brilliant Stanford scientist, has engineered yeast that can produce opiates without poppies.