Ritualized killings once took place in many societies and in most regions around the globe.
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Earth is pretty much the limit of how large you can get and still be rocky. Anything much larger, and you’re a gas giant. “How vast those Orbs must be, and […]
A yeast found in the gut micro biome of infants is implicated in the development of asthma.
PTSD develops after a person experiences, or is a witness to, a life-threatening or traumatic event — a natural disaster, for example — or is exposed to combat, or sexual […]
TRAPPIST-1 is 40 light years from Earth. It would take us millions of years to get there.
Elon Musk, Sam Harris, Ray Kurzweil and other visionaries discuss AI superintelligence at a recent conference.
The physics of why popping off a few rounds in celebration can quickly turn deadly. “I’ve heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal. […]
Mathematics is the academic class that is most socially acceptable to regard as your weak point. This is a shame.
We’re about to kick off the sixth great extinction event. And we’ll follow shortly after.
Yale psychologist Paul Bloom suggests a bit of reason in your feeling in his new book, Against Empathy.
NASA finds 50,000 year-old bacteria alive inside gigantic crystals in a Mexican mine.
The Earth is round, Kyrie Irving. But not every world needs to be. “‘I’ll follow him to the ends of the earth,’ she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn’t have […]
Facebook knows about your past, present, and likely future. But how do they know this information? Data Selfie is a creepy new tool that will give you an answer. The free plugin provides a gateway into the data mining and predictive analytics that is used by Facebook to create your online identity.
Bill and Melinda Gates lay out the key accomplishments of their philanthropic foundation in response to Warren Buffet.
How gravitational magnification allows us to see what we’ve never seen before. “The problem is, you’re trying to find these really faint things, but you’re looking behind these really bright things. […]
So far, 549 separate paraphilias have been officially identified.
In one of the best examples of free education this year, Pixar has released a six-part online course called ‘The Art of Storytelling’.
Harvard scientists say they are two years away from creating a hybrid embryo with mammoth traits.
The world’s largest social network now has a feature, Jobs on Facebook, that is free for both job posters and job seekers. For millions of underemployed workers already on Facebook, it may be a welcome feature.
Bill Gates proposes an ingenious solution to the job losses from the coming automation.
If the Big Bang happened and everything is moving away from us, where’s the center? “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out […]
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Author Ayelet Waldman on parenting, identity, and how LSD microdosing changed her life for the better.
Jonathon Keats proposes a “Reciprocal Biomimicry Initiative” to help return the favor after taking so many great ideas from them.
Creating a race of super soldiers is off the table, too.
There is so much we’ve discovered and so far that we’ve come. But there’s a limit to knowledge we’ll never be able to overcome. “To know that we know what […]
These glycerin “smart glasses” may be the only specs you’ll need – although they do need a design intervention at some point.
Some people are just as afraid of eternal life as non-existence.
Our increased dependency on antibiotics creates more resistant bacteria. How will we outwit these bad actors?
Churchill displays a surprising amount of knowledge on a question that we are still wrestling with.
What does it mean for spooky action at a distance if distances aren’t real, but just the way they look to us?