We’re about to kick off the sixth great extinction event. And we’ll follow shortly after.
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Yale psychologist Paul Bloom suggests a bit of reason in your feeling in his new book, Against Empathy.
NASA finds 50,000 year-old bacteria alive inside gigantic crystals in a Mexican mine.
The Earth is round, Kyrie Irving. But not every world needs to be. “‘I’ll follow him to the ends of the earth,’ she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn’t have […]
Facebook knows about your past, present, and likely future. But how do they know this information? Data Selfie is a creepy new tool that will give you an answer. The free plugin provides a gateway into the data mining and predictive analytics that is used by Facebook to create your online identity.
Bill and Melinda Gates lay out the key accomplishments of their philanthropic foundation in response to Warren Buffet.
How gravitational magnification allows us to see what we’ve never seen before. “The problem is, you’re trying to find these really faint things, but you’re looking behind these really bright things. […]
So far, 549 separate paraphilias have been officially identified.
In one of the best examples of free education this year, Pixar has released a six-part online course called ‘The Art of Storytelling’.
Harvard scientists say they are two years away from creating a hybrid embryo with mammoth traits.
The world’s largest social network now has a feature, Jobs on Facebook, that is free for both job posters and job seekers. For millions of underemployed workers already on Facebook, it may be a welcome feature.
Bill Gates proposes an ingenious solution to the job losses from the coming automation.
If the Big Bang happened and everything is moving away from us, where’s the center? “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out […]
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Author Ayelet Waldman on parenting, identity, and how LSD microdosing changed her life for the better.
Jonathon Keats proposes a “Reciprocal Biomimicry Initiative” to help return the favor after taking so many great ideas from them.
Creating a race of super soldiers is off the table, too.
There is so much we’ve discovered and so far that we’ve come. But there’s a limit to knowledge we’ll never be able to overcome. “To know that we know what […]
These glycerin “smart glasses” may be the only specs you’ll need – although they do need a design intervention at some point.
Some people are just as afraid of eternal life as non-existence.
Our increased dependency on antibiotics creates more resistant bacteria. How will we outwit these bad actors?
Churchill displays a surprising amount of knowledge on a question that we are still wrestling with.
What does it mean for spooky action at a distance if distances aren’t real, but just the way they look to us?
We haven’t found the truly “first” ones yet, but we’re not just on our way; we’re almost there. “For the first time we can learn about individual stars from near the […]
In 2012, “pathological bias” was included in the Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders.
Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence learns what it takes to win, making human-like choices in competitive situations.
Sometimes science is stranger than fiction. “To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the […]
What kind of madman would run a business on the mindset that all attempts to fail must be made as quickly as possible, as only then could they succeed? Meet Dr. Astro Teller.
Genetic, immune, and neurological components point to evolutionary underpinnings.
A series of spelling errors has educated Trump opponents laughing.
The 1971 cult classic Harold and Maude is an unlikely love story between a depressed 18-year-old Harold and a lively 79-year-old Maude who meet at a funeral. Given the rise is online dating and its impact on how couples unite, it is fair to ask: If Harold and Maude was set in 2017, would Harold pick Maude on Tinder?