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It’s not breaking news that the universe is slowly dying. It is significant that scientists have been able to finally measure the degree to which it’s dying. Let’s just say you should push up any appointments you might have 100 billion years from now.

Another young black man was shot in Ferguson, as the public’s faith in law enforcement waivers.

This isn’t the Matrix. Should you wish to face the ugly reality, there’s no red pill you can swallow.

Structural damage could have started as early as 10 or 12 years old if they were enrolled in tackle football that young.

The famous Keep Calm and Carry On poster had a First World War antecedent.

“30 years after, Hiroshima and Nagasaki are bustling cities. 30 years after Chernobyl, abandoned city. What’s the difference?”

Because, seriously, who wants to stand up and walk on a big treadmill desk all day?

The barrier to understanding math may be more psychological than we thought.

Place matters, and it may matter more in older age than at any other stage of life. Where we live shapes the contours of our daily experience, determining our access […]

Are they working out personal problems? Or perhaps mulling over the creation of the universe? Researchers say no to both.

Is “nudge theory” Big Brother running our lives, or just the medicine we need? 

Did you know that in 2014 the top 25 hedge fund managers in the U.S. were paid a collective $11.6 billion? 

In August 2012, Curiosity became the heaviest, most advanced rover to ever land on Mars. Here’s what the red planet looks like. “Studying whether there’s life on Mars or studying […]

Our cities don’t burn like they used to.

An incredible art project creates a new, tiny world every day. “I’d rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.”–Mohsin Hamid As small as it is […]

Department of Corrections is a misnomer. At the present, DOCs across the country shun from the responsibility to make convicts better people.

Nashville-based Ride for Reading began as an elementary school teacher’s endeavor to put books in the hands of low-income children.

If dark matter is the most abundant form of mass, and has gravity, where are all the dark matter structures? “All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may […]

Do schools kill creativity? Should white boys ever rap or breakdance? This week on Think Again we’re joined by Maria Konnikova, author of The Confidence Game and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

In the murky land of Twitter, a war rages online- and offline as comedians attempt to protect their writing from other writers.

Starches may have played a key role in our ancestors’ diets, helping humans to develop the big brains we have today.

Women feel the effects more harshly, whereas it takes a while for men to let those feelings sink in.

A key thought experiment, the “tragedy of the commons,” is widely misunderstood, especially among certain kinds of economists. Elinor Ostrom won a Nobel Prize for showing how irrational they can be. 

In an unprecedented use of Freedom of Information laws, an anti-GMO group wants to read the emails of forty university professors with professional associations to biotechnology firms.

Recent data suggests there are some health benefits from adding a little spice to your foods.

There are three kinds of BS, explains Stewart, and all three made appearances last night.

AI will throw a wrench into many of our theological foundations. How will we adapt? 

Words of wisdom from 19th century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard: “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” 

It’s the leftover glow from the Big Bang. Here’s what it teaches us, and why you shouldn’t worry about “anomalies” in the CMB. “The radiation left over from the Big […]

Why is it that in the face of a total lack of evidence for their effectiveness, so many people feel so much affection for quacks?