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Our minds are hyper-taxed due to hyper-tasking. We need to slow down and allow ourselves to daydream if we want to improve our attention.
The book Buddha Takes the Mound delivers an engaging and sophisticated account of Buddhism’s worldview through the prism of baseball.
Elevated blood pressure, even within the normal range, is associated with accelerated brain aging.
It’s better to pursue moral actions instead of the ephemeral state of happiness, according to the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Engaging in a brief mindfulness exercise made people who identified “I/me” words 33% less likely to volunteer.
Put two grapes close together in a microwave and you’ll get an electrifying result, all because of the physics of plasmas.
Portraiture is one of the most intimate genres in all of painting, and it has reinvented itself many times across European history.
We all employ heuristics to help us deal with the world. But when we make a hasty generalization, we risk making a big error in our thinking.
There has been a 600% increase in European gas prices so far in 2021.
Long assumed to be a devoted vegetarian, ancient sloths were fine with some meat.
After the 2011 Fukushima disaster, it was Germany, not Japan, that cracked down most severely on nuclear power plants.
For the past 150+ years, the big ones have all missed us. But at some point, our good luck will run out.
Deep brain stimulation could represent a breakthrough in the treatment of mental health disorders like major depressive disorder.
Studio Ghibli movies celebrate the natural world using a very Japanese mixture of Shinto, Buddhist, and Daoist themes.
The key is finding which lifestyle suits you best: hedonic, eudaimonic, or experiential.
Asymmetric organocatalysis is an environmentally friendly way of accelerating chemical reactions and creating specific types of molecules.
Even if we traveled at the speed of light, we’d never catch up to these galaxies.
Marijuana use among college students in 2020 reached levels not seen since the 1980s.
The thrills and horrors of strange heavenly bodies condensed into one attractive snapshot.
The trial will test whether adding graphene to recycled asphalt can prolong the road’s lifespan.
Real-time online learning is where our dated education system is heading.
MIT scientists show how fast algorithms are improving across a broad range of examples, demonstrating their critical importance in advancing computing.
Time and again, studies have found a connection between authoritarian ideals and meaning in life — a notion backed up by historical documents.
If you’re looking for work, a new study says having fast internet helps.
Stoicism says that we should change what we can, endure what we must. The company we keep is something we can, and often should, change.
In 1966, Disney announced his intention to build Epcot, an acronym for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.”
The microscopic tardigrades are an elusive species. Fossils are rare, but each new find adds a piece to their unsolved evolutionary puzzle.
Nebulae are beautiful, but so is the process of science.