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How do you write away the personal hole in your heart when that hole was left by a man half the world idolizes? Steve Jobs’ daughter, the writer Lisa Brennan-Jobs, on the process and effects of writing her beautiful memoir SMALL FRY.
There are rules absolutely forbidding it from happening. But some particles do it anyway. All the matter we know of in the Universe is made up of Standard Model particles. Photons […]
Do scientists know enough about gene editing to move forward with human trials?
How different types of green space affect mental health.
Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman hypothesizes we evolved to experience a collective delusion — not objective reality.
A new study finds that factors influencing where you’re born continue to affect your earnings throughout life.
Warspeak has relentlessly crept into most aspects of American life and public discourse.
Abraham Maslow’s famous hierarchy of needs is depicted as a triangle with self-actualization at the very top. Right before his death, Maslow wanted to add another to the hierarchy: Self-transcendence.
If your Universe contains any matter at all, a constant Hubble parameter is absolutely impossible. Our observable Universe is an enormous place, with some two trillion galaxies strewn across the […]
“Cargotecture” is becoming increasingly popular as a cheap alternative to traditional houses.
Measles cases in the U.S. have hit a record high — 1,172 cases so far.
Atop hundreds of bus stops, rest stops for bees.
Her plan to abolish most student debt has been put before Congress. But does it have any chance of passing?
Animal law is the fastest growing legal discipline.
Social media wunderkind Baratunde Thurston says we’re living in an age of information overabundance, but that this needn’t be a problem. Just as supermarkets offer us many more choices of […]
Many of them are spinning at nearly the speed of light. When you do the math, there’s no other way it could have been. Take a look out there at the […]
Our antipathy toward the natural world is bad. But it’s not too late to change.
If ever there was a food that holds a lesson for building bridges in a fractured America, it’s the cabbage roll.
The famed German filmmaker offers his thoughts on reading during Eric Weinstein’s podcast.
The solar farm is expected to save the airport millions over the following decades.
Though quantum teleportation has been demonstrated, the beam-me-up kind is still fiction.
Experts’ thoughts on this unique emotional state.
We know he is on the left, but why? And how left is left anyhow?
2019 could prove to be the second-hottest year on record.
What makes Uranus and Neptune-like worlds so fascinating? If you only knew. What do we really know, and what mysteries are left to solve, about the outer worlds of our Solar […]
When you’re trying to peel back the veil obscuring the fundamental nature of matter, you have to look absolutely everywhere. Sometimes, the solution to a puzzle you’ve been stymied by […]
A surprising study reveals how people feel about being replaced by robots in their jobs.
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” — Toni Morrison