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Bottoms ups! A Southern Calfornia brewery is taking its beer from toilet to tap. San Diego’s Stone Brewing has started making Full Circle Pale Ale using treated sewage water and recently held a tasting. While Bill Gates has shown that drinking “poop water” is perfectly fine, will consumers chug down this beer?
What did Nikola Tesla or Bertrand Russell think of fewer working hours? Can a good life only come from work — and if so how much of it, and what kind?
When a quantum interaction happens, one interpretation leads to an infinite number of parallel Universes. Here’s how that could be true. “As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with […]
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the nature of time and the conundrums of time travel in a recent interview.
“Shut up and take my money” isn’t just a meme anymore, it’s the way people are increasingly choosing to access art, news, and culture.
When galaxy clusters merge together, they form the largest objects the Universe will ever create. “On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in […]
In March 2017, the New Zealand government made history by passing the Te Awa Tupua Bill.
Australia could soon ban unvaccinated children from attending preschools nationwide.
A new study explains why and how people choose to avoid information and when that strategy could be beneficial.
America’s most popular conspiracy theories and the science behind them.
The beloved honeybee has more in common with vertebrates that anyone thought.
A new study from Johns Hopkins University supports making birth control pills available without a prescription.
A Swiss scientist identifies the top predator in the world in a new study.
Knowing the details of genetic variance may help improve personalized medicine.
A new study reveals the positive effect being vegetarian can have on the production of greenhouse gases.
Space is getting bigger, but atoms, humans, Earth and our Milky Way stay the same size. How is this possible? “The Universe is expanding the way your mind is expanding. […]
Evolution exists and exerts itself in a different way than gravity does… because natural selection is an “algorithmic force.”
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Comedy writer and producer Scott Aukerman on Michael Bolton, transgression in comedy, and cultural turmoil in the USA.
Freeze it, boil it, or expose it to radiation. The water bear shrugs it off. Now we know why.
Bill Nye, CEO of The Planetary Society, offers an important 5-point plan for President Trump on space exploration and NASA’s budget.
This AI hates racism, retorts wittily when sexually harassed, dreams of being superintelligent, and finds Siri’s conversational skills to be decidedly below her own.
New York has the same GDP as Canada, Los Angeles makes as much money in a year as Australia
Your theory predicts something novel? How nice. But no one will pay you any mind unless you test it. “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards […]
Men have become much more aggressive with women in their negotiation style since Donald Trump became president, according to a new Game Theory based economics study. More aggressive tactics by men are leading to reduced mutual benefits and a destruction of value in negotiations.
Percy Shelley’s 1811 essay, “The Necessity of Atheism,” still speaks volumes today.
A new study suggests always-improving video games are keeping young men without college educations unemployed or out of the workforce entirely.
The European Geosciences Union predicts that over 70% of glacier volume in the Everest region could be lost by 2100. One man has engineered a solution so that life in these regions can go on.
Have you heard that life is unlikely around low-mass, red dwarf stars? It might be time to rethink that flawed conclusion. “Laws of nature mixed with evolutionary/historical contingencies allow for […]
Don’t work with children or animals? Sir David Attenborough laughs in the face of danger.