Are there any advantages to looking so cumbersome?
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Because there’s not enough Walden pond to go around.
It’s time to let go of those emails from your cousin and the photos of your dinner.
The last 70 years have taken us farther than the previous 70,000. But can we accomplish more than creating a record saying, “We were here?”
When we feel sick, it’s not just the pathogen to blame. Our brain cranks up the temperature, and the neurons responsible finally have been found.
When Cameroon’s Lakes Monoun and Nyos exploded, they released clouds of carbon dioxide that suffocated everything in its wake.
Before anesthetics, some patients would die of the pain on the operating table.
If your computer crashes, it might be due to a star that exploded somewhere in the Universe millions of years ago.
What creates our private, inner universes is still a mystery.
If you can model anything in the Universe with an equation, mathematics is how you get the solution(s). Physics must go a step further.
From questionable shipwrecks to outright attacks, the Sentinelese clearly don’t want to be bothered.
The minimum wage is a popular policy, but it’s not the only way governments have tried to help workers secure a decent living.
“Strategic ambiguity” has long been the West’s strategy on Taiwan.
Quantum mechanics forces us to toss out the old, reliable ways in which we make sense of our everyday reality.
From black holes to dark energy to chances for life in the Universe, our cosmic journey to understand it all is just getting started.
Managers who are able to identify and understand dark salespeople can manipulate them to benefit the company. What could be more Machiavellian than that?
The Arabic word fatwa can mean “explanation” or “clarification.”
The Rubbee X requires almost no setup and is far cheaper than a brand new e-bike.
Looking at ourselves in a mirror — or on a video call — shapes our sense of self. But what you see is not what others see.
Is it deliberate fraud or just bad research?
The synthetic cartilage was made from cellulose fibers — the stuff found in wood — mixed with a goo called polyvinyl alcohol.
Be famous within five miles.
Mesopotamian beer was not flavored with hops, and it was probably on the thick, porridgey side.
We’re overthinking being nice.
No. No no no. Just… no. The JWST has truly blown our scientific minds, but it’s a pure crackpot idea that the Big Bang is now disproven.
Unexpected images of galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope do not disprove the Big Bang. There are other likelier explanations.
Could anyone still meet the Theoretical Minimum?
The brain is highly plastic — the more we do a particular action, the more we change its makeup. Money is a great motivator for habit-forming actions.