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Like L. Ron Hubbard knew, the veneer of celebrity casts such a bright light that the details are obscured. Perhaps that’s why we call them “stars.” The closer you get, the harder to observe the shadows being cast.
Research suggests that cold showers are an effective way of boosting the circulation system while also offering mood-lifting benefits on the side.
“Envy is a really stupid sin because it’s the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There’s a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you […]
The United Nations is expected to adopt the World Bank’s goal of eliminating extreme poverty by 2030. Whether that goal is feasible depends on just how many resources one expects will be put to use in the effort.
Sir Richard Francis Burton, famed 19th century explorer, on world religions: “The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.”
Eliminating the estate tax makes no sense in a meritocratic system, yet most Americans are against the so-called “death tax.” The reasons why range from the hypocritical to the woefully ignorant.
“Exposure” and “experience” are rarely worth uncompensated labor.
Procrastinators should watch themselves; according to a recent study, putting off today what you could do tomorrow may have ties to heart disease.
The more education people have, the more ignorant they may be. Ignoring our ignorance and assuming we know much more than we actually do seems to be a universal human tendency.
Don’t just try to give your child the right answers. Lead them to smart conclusions by offering thought-out, open-ended questions.
The Universe we see isn’t exactly the Universe that is. How do we translate? “On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in […]
New word tools can sometimes avoid old confusions. Let’s use “praxotype,” “cognotype,” and “technomorphic” to see human nature more accurately. Especially to see that we’re the least genetically constrained species ever.
Modern technology has provided us with a seamless way of life, but we’ve also become accustomed to taking shortcuts.
Art, music, and gym are always the first to go when school administrators seek cuts, yet a child’s physical well-being is just as important to society as his or her intellectual skills.
Computer science curriculum must be adopted by K-12 schools in order to increase diversity in the tech sector.
For every good deed, people feel they have license to do a little bad. For shoppers who bring reusable bags, that may just mean some extra chips in the shopping cart.
Scientists running the world’s biggest physics experiment will soon begin trials that will test for the presence of alternate universes existing in different dimensions of hyperspace.
Few American cultural institutions stared as deep into the yawning, austerity-driven abyss of large-scale deaccessioning as The Detroit Institute of Arts. When the City of Detroit declared bankruptcy in 2013, vulturous creditors circled the DIA’s collection, estimated worth (depending on the estimator) of $400 million to over $800 million. Some experts see signs of a Detroit comeback, however, but one very visible sign is the new DIA exhibition Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit, a showcase of the city’s ties to Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as well as a tribute to Kahlo’s and Rivera’s own artistic comebacks. Few exhibitions truly capture the spirit of a city at a critical moment in its history, but Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit is a show of comebacks that will have you coming back for more.
If you’re learning, you’re being taught, no matter who is doing the teaching or where the lesson is taking place (and conversely, if you’re not learning, you’re not being taught).
The highest high tides occur once every 18 years, and can lead to surprising floods. Here’s the science behind them. “But less intelligible still was the flood that was caused […]
Medical expansion has led people to believe they are less healthy. It seems counterintuitive, but there may be a certain burden of truth that comes with the price of medical advancements.
George Washington was not only the founding father of the U.S., but also of mass immunization.
Conflict is inevitable in most relationships. So, it’s useful to know how to engage in it without inflicting damage. This requires learning how to persuade by focusing more on the […]
College students will text anywhere — in the shower, on the toilet, and even while they’re having sex. So, why are young adults so compelled to respond?
Researchers have studied how towns, less influenced by tech, sleep. They’ve found these people’s wake/sleep cycles mimic the sun’s. So, what can be done to save the tech-addicted cities?
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”
“We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.”
“No society has been able to abolish human sadness; no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”