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Nature versus nurture is back, and this time it’s about happiness. Do our behaviors make us happy, or does our brain?
It’s extremely difficult for new technologies to also envision the ways we will relate to each other in the future.
ISIS routinely traffics and sells captured women and girls. Is buying them back fueling more terrorism?
As we all still recover from the Paris attacks, remember the beauty and joy of one of the most forgotten French discoveries. “Truth is more valuable if it takes you […]
We really did design the world in our own image. “Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.” –Albert Camus Whenever we […]
The ad has been praised for its inclusivity, but it’s more transgressive than that.
And what technology will it take for us to get there? “Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on […]
Climate change will hurt farmers, although not all equally. American farmers won’t have it nearly as bad as African ones.
His words give those of us with creative and depressive tendencies hope, perspective, and a sense of camaraderie.
Terrorists exploit the “glamor of action movies, video games, and gangsta rap.” Counterterrorist efforts somehow have to counter that glamorization.
When we fear, we band together, and more readily treat people in other tribes as the enemy.
We need to talk openly about the world we live in because evil thrives on silence and secrecy. I’d go so far as to say that it can’t exist without them.
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And because of it, we can learn about quantum entanglement across a black hole’s event horizon. This article was contributed to Starts With A Bang by Sabine Hossenfelder, whose blog, Backreaction, […]
Those who want to keep Syrian refugees out of the country are succumbing to a classic error of logical reasoning.
The Star Trek actor has some words on invoking Japanese internment camps in the context of the current Syrian refugee conversation.
Many parents in China seek to teach their kids valuable coding skills, and they’re not the only ones.
France is welcoming Syrian refugees, but the U.S. is frightened. Have we forgotten who we are and how we got here?
All remaining research chimps will be retired and relocated to sanctuaries.
See it over the coming six weeks, before it disappears and heads out of the Solar System forever. “I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and […]
The U.K. plans to phase out coal power by 2025, but how will renewable energy factor into the equation?
Let the French flag fly on Facebook. It flies for us all. It flies for life.
The Daily Show host put comedy aside to remind us that Paris truly embodied the values of ‘liberté, égalité, fraternité.’
Edward Snowden lists services that will protect your privacy with just a few downloads.
And the method teaches us just how far Pluto is from actual planethood. “Some kind of celestial event. No — no words. No words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent […]
Fear might lead U.S. states to try and close their borders to Syrian refugees, but is that really a productive move?
No national museum captures its country’s greatness as perfectly as Russia’s Hermitage.
The author of The Purpose Driven Life has a theory about why Paris happened: We haven’t accepted Jesus.