Humans are good visual thinkers, too, but we tend to privilege verbal thinking.
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It’s nearly 20,000 miles long.
Far from practicing witchcraft, the experimentation of medieval alchemists helped bring about the Scientific Revolution.
Innovative thinking has done away with problems that long dogged the electric devices — and both scientists and environmentalists are excited about the possibilities.
Along with gravitational lensing and ALMA’s incredible long-wavelength spectroscopy, JWST is reshaping our view of the early Universe.
Adopting a healthy scepticism towards inherited ideas means “emptying the container of the Self.”
One of Jetoptera’s VTOLs is expected to reach speeds of around 614 mph, about as fast as a commercial jet airliner.
New blood types are regularly discovered by an unusual absence or an unusual presence — both of which can result in tragedy.
Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them.
Your breathing rhythm influences a wide range of behaviors, cognition, and emotion.
Researchers watched for signs of withdrawal — but didn’t find any.
Compared to people who took a placebo, the brains of those who took caffeine pills had a temporarily smaller gray matter volume.
“It is more human to laugh at life than to lament it.”
Out of sight, but not out of mind.
Entrenched business wisdom says that community-led economic systems are pure fantasy. Douglas Rushkoff disagrees.
The right questions are those sparked from the joy of discovery.
When you bring two fingers together, you can feel them “touch” each other. But are your atoms really touching, and if so, how?
There might be a hard limit to our knowledge of the Universe.
What we’ve learning from the world’s coldest, most forbidding, and most peaceful continent.
Personal finance advice is often over-simplified and fails to consider economic research or people’s unique circumstances.
Some Europeans really don’t want to use the internet.
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.
Size matters, but it’s not the only thing.
It’s simpler, more compact, and reusable from year-to-year in a way that no other calendar is. Here’s both how it works and how to use it.
Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate.
To Einstein, nature had to be rational. But quantum physics showed us that there was not always a way to make it so.
By developing skills like divergent thinking and collaboration in the workforce, creativity training has the potential to unlock revolutionary ideas.
Warm relationships protect your mind and body from the slings and arrows of life.
Close to 70% of drugs advertised on TV offer little to no benefit over other cheaper drugs.
Sniffing out a deal.