About 1.15 million people in the U.S. have died from gun violence since John Lennon’s death 35 years ago. What can his life and music tell us about how to respond to violence, intolerance, and hate?
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I assume France will be cutting out the “liberté” part of its “liberté, égalité, fraternité” motto?
You know you’ve gone off the deep end when the human incarnation of Darth Vader says your proposal “goes against everything we stand for and believe in.”
If we can’t reach a national consensus and the Supreme Court can’t agree, it might be for each state to decide.
Though perhaps not the most pressing, believe it or not.
Knowing how to code becomes the next phase of literacy.
The Second Amendment is “… not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”
If You Work in a Creative Industry, You Should Steal Other People’s Ideas Just as Shakespeare lifted plots from his predecessors, young performers today ought to focus on emulating those […]
Technology companies are under pressure to remove violent, terrorist content from their sites. Who should decide what gets removed?
The largest asteroid in the Solar System is hiding volatile materials that have never seen the Sun. “Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the […]
How to stop mass shootings? Maps speak louder than words.
Don’t even think about getting anything other than this one! “No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.” –Quintus Ennius If you are (or you […]
Religion is part of the problem. But the bigger picture is much larger than any one book.
People who believe that vague, mundane, vacuous quotes are truly profound also show indications of decreased cognitive ability.
Get in the know about one of the world’s most gorgeous natural events.
Is AI about to take over? Or does it struggle to be as smart as a toddler?
Researchers assessed what makes someone likely to believe collections of randomly mixed buzzwords were “profound.”
While a “counter-Earth” may be impossible, there are three other ways it could actually work out. “We are not like the social insects. They have only the one way of doing […]
It’s not the end of the world, guys.
Keeping sugar-sweetened beverages off the dinner table.
The ban brings to light a bigger issue.
Thanksgiving has come and gone, but the universal story of us all is with us every day. “We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is […]
Without context, this is an alien world. How liberating!
Was Jackson Pollock more than just “Jack the Dripper”?
Iran is starting to show works of Western art that have been underground for 40 years.
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan will give away billions through their new LLC.
The supply chain for recycling paper burns more fossil fuel than it needs to. Epson has come up with a solution.
There was a huge problem a century ago, and it took an Einstein to solve it. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to […]
Long live the bicycle!
Prepare for the Great Space Gold Rush of 2025.