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“Don’t stress yourself out just cramming some information into your head. Taking a nap is just as good,” says an academic sleep researchers about a recent study.
Looking for new ways to teach the intellectual capital of humanity to its students, Glasgow University is offering a philosophy course based on the character of Homer Simpson.
We’ve just had the largest full Moon in 68 years. Here’s what was — and wasn’t — true. “For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of […]
If anyone can convince Donald J. Trump to take climate change seriously, it might be the US military.
In a recent CBS News interview, Jon Stewart lays out some fascinating thinking about Trump, how we got here, and what we all need to do to keep the country working as best it can.
During a time of division and fear, the Buddhist path offers insights into surviving and uniting.
This breakthrough Stanford University study may lead to gender specific treatments for post-traumatic experiences.
Researchers in materials science — physics, chemistry, and engineering — are working on new technologies which could solve some of the biggest problems humans currently face.
Stephen Hawking considers the future of humanity in a talk at Oxford University.
A massive complex of ancient stone structures is uncovered in remote Kazakhstan.
Women have the right to decide when to get pregnant. To exercise that right, they need access to contraception and information about family planning.
Fitness experts are praising the benefits of crawling.
Every day, somewhere between 60 and 70 million girls are not in school. More than half a billion females worldwide are illiterate—about twice the number of illiterate males.
Some things are held to a higher standard than mob rule. “The evidence at present available points strongly to the conclusion that the spirals are individual galaxies, or island universes, […]
This was a large-scale study, including 55,000 students from eight different countries.
The troubling ReAnima clinical trials in India have just been blocked.
Don’t believe everything Google tells you. Facebook and Google are taking measures against fake news, but it’s becoming clear that it’s a symptom of a bigger problem.
SuitX has announced the next generation of workplace human augmentation: a bionic suit that could help enhance productivity within the labor industry and reduce costs.
How Polling botched the 2016 election “Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.” –Nate Silver On the eve of the 2016 election, Nate Silver’s 538 site […]
Donald Trump directly contradicts the biblical notion of charity. Yet Evangelicals, Mormons, Protestants, and White Catholics overwhelmingly voted for him.
The Electoral College system is anachronistic, disillusioning, and unpopular. Here’s a better plan.
A new partnership is leveraging the power of AI to hunt down online sex traffickers.
Much news on the Internet is very similar to the dangerous “yellow journalism” of history.
We can all rattle off a few Greek philosophers to win a trivia prize, but how many Golden Age philosophers are you familiar with? Here’s a primer.
The reports that our Solar System is missing the galaxy’s most common type of planet are greatly exaggerated. “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a […]
Electronics factory workers in Shenzen have a their own manufacturing scene going at night.
In response to the president elect, NASA’s leadership is developing strategies for continuing deep space exploration in the event of budget change or stagnation.
Trump’s impending presidency has left marijuana advocates with fingers crossed on one hand, with the other ready to flush the toilet at a moment’s notice.
A huge body of water beneath a Bolivian volcano has scientists excited.