A number of important women are working outside mainstream media to build platforms that address the gray areas in challenging topics.
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After a 16 year wait, the star SO-2 will speed past our galaxy’s supermassive black hole at 2.5% the speed of light. It will be the first-of-its-kind test of Einstein’s […]
A recent study from Ontario measured the brain waves of improvisational jazz pianists, finding that the more training they had, the more creative they were rated.
Can female nudity ever be empowering?
The cumulative effect of plastics is taking its toll on the world. So supermarkets are starting to cut it out.
This discovery could lead to not only a better understanding of our evolution but to new treatment options for schizophrenics.
DST has implications on our history, our health, and even our chances of being the victim of a crime.
Truly a negative week in terms of the comments on our Facebook. Maybe have some fruit and some sunshine next week?
Sure, you love your dog. But do you love your dog enough to spend $50,000 on a cloned version of your dog that in all likelihood won’t act like your departed pal?
For Women’s History Month we have a list of seven all women teams who changed history. Some were scientists, some soldiers, some living, and some long gone. All of them shaped the world.
If the multiverse is real, why hasn’t our Universe, in a sea of infinite possibilities, run into another one at least once? The Universe we inhabit is vast, full of matter […]
Almost every reader will learn from the vast erudition (and biblical proportions) of Steven Pinker’s ‘Enlightenment Now’. But it’s data-lit gospel of progress hides darker biases.
The persistent dream of a “gay utopia” is one of the constants in gay and lesbian historical imaginings over the last 200 years. But is it real?
A new study finds that supposedly healthier standing desks cause physical pain and slow down users’ thinking.
After examining thousands of diabetes patients, researchers in Finland and Sweden identified five distinct categories of diabetes.
AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint have all recently unveiled plans for a nationwide 5G network in the US.
The Nonhuman Rights Project turns to philosophy to persuade courts to honor chimpanzees’ rights.
It’s raining penguins!
Distances in the expanding Universe don’t work like you’d expect. Unless, that is, you learn to think like a cosmologist. There are a few fundamental facts about the Universe — its origin, […]
“Global capitalism and local traditions are no longer opposites, they are on the same side,” says Slavoj Zizek. The traditions of anti-capitalist protest are upended by this fact.
The reason why reveals a near-universal difference in the academic strengths of each sex.
If mating preferences are biologically predetermined, individual sexism shouldn’t have an impact. But it does.
In a state-of-the-nation speech just weeks before Russia’s presidential election, President Vladimir Putin claimed his country had two new nuclear-powered weapons systems.
Welcome news as the flu pandemic begins to subside.
Investor, advisor and author Tim Ferriss says that often times the smartest questions are the “dumbest” — the ones that no one asks because they are afraid of being shamed. In a […]
LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will not only be the space-based successor to LIGO, but will predict black hole mergers up to years in advance. Across the Universe, innumerable masses […]
It is possible to eat fast food and stay true to the keto diet. Just be wary of eliminating everything from life (and avoid the sauces).
The findings could help medical professionals better determine the official time of brain death, and might have implications on the protocols for organ donation.
Think you’re “post-tribal”? Think again. Attorney and “tiger mom” Amy Chua on groupthink in America and abroad.
Canadian researchers have successfully reconstructed faces from data in brain scans.