Congo is one of the most culturally diverse, mineral rich, and beautiful places on Earth. But the “heart of darkness” colonizers dreamed into being still bleeds. Daniel McCabe’s documentary This is Congo lets this wounded nation speak for itself.
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New research spots a remarkable meeting of Jupiter’s jet streams and its magnetic field and proposes that it may contain the explanation for the planets’ striking cloud patterns.
In the earliest stages of the Universe, before there were protons or neutrons, we had a quark-gluon plasma. The story of our cosmic history is one of an expanding and […]
MIT researchers find that 1–2 percent of Earth’s oldest mantle rocks are made from diamond. rnrn
The FBI has warned banks that a group of criminals might be planning a large-scale ‘ATM cash-out’ after receiving a tip from an unknown source.
A much-needed “causal revolution” has arrived in Judea Pearl’s ‘The Book of Why’. But despite vast improvements over “trad stats”, there’s cause for concern over logic-losing numbers.
Starting this fall, public schools in Florida will be required to display the words “In God We Trust” in a noticeable place within each building used by a district.
A publication from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco says that the Great Recession that happened 10 years ago will cost us all $70K over a lifetime because of lost GDP.
A new paper strengthens the theory that black holes are like balls of space yarn and debunks the idea of “firewalls”.
A new study finds that even minutes of meditation or mindfulness increases your cognitive capabilities.
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If the Breakthrough Starshot initiative, promoted by Stephen Hawking, works exactly as planned, it could lead to disaster. Imagine yourself on a world not so different from Earth, orbiting a […]
We know that excessive blue light is a problem. Now we know why.
Chinese hackers at DEFCON have demonstrated how they were able to hack an Amazon Echo unit, enabling them to listen and record unsuspecting targets.
Why is only 10% of the population left-handed? There are a few new scientific clues pointing to the answer.
The short answer is that an exact copy of the website was hacked, yes. In just 10 minutes. By an 11-year-old kid.
We think of ourselves as rational beings, but our cognitive biases often mean our decisions are based on instincts and emotions. Here are five times cognitive biases pushed Americans to advance foreign policies that stood against the country’s best interests.
Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former senior aide to President Donald Trump, says she’s recorded multiple secret audio tapes at the White House, including one of her firing by Chief of Staff John Kelly.
Why do great minds argue for positions we find repulsive? Today, we find out why Robert Nozick was a libertarian.
We know not getting enough sleep is bad for us, this study gives us yet another reason to get a few more hours in.
If we want to reach for the stars, we have to start in our own backyard. By looking at the sky alone, we can see the apparent, angular sizes of […]
Reddit can reveal a lot, depending on how you interpret the data.
Sometimes lacking proper language is just a failure of imagination.
China is investing a gargantuan amount of money in Africa, but it’s leaving many in the global community concerned as to why.
Like it or not, agreements made between hackers in Germany, Prague, and elsewhere could reconfigure the economy… and a frightening new world.
The speed of death isn’t as instantaneous as you may think.
You’ve probably seen it hanging around. But how did it get there? And can we live there?
People in the West are constantly encouraged to sleep less and accomplish more. But the science behind sleep deprivation shows why that’s a terrible idea.