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A new study shows people who use sarcasm have increased creativity, but are the benefits contagious?
In cities where defunct industry caused a population exodus, officials may be competing for immigrants.
Ben Carson has recently surged in the polls. Should we be concerned about his apocalyptic visions?
Where do we learn what matters? Are new forces crowding out the old sources of stories that shape us?
There is a modern backlash against the pursuit of knowledge, and here is why that is absurd.
Excavators found the bones of an ancient warrior surrounded by “lots of bling,” bronze weapons, and — interestingly enough — several vanity items such as a mirror and six combs.
Teachers reinforce that making mistakes will get you a dunce cap. Shouldn’t it be getting you a gold star instead?
We often conflate the words ‘compassion’ and ’empathy’ but they have different meanings for a very important reason.
This is particularly the case among males.
With the addition of Julia, a character with autism, Sesame Street (unlike The Muppets) keeps up with the times without losing its soul.
Think your interior decorator is evil? Imagine Hitler’s.
“We don’t want to make this; Moses is Darth Vader and Jacobs is a perfect angel from heaven.”
Albert Einstein gives his surprising perspective on truth to Indian philosopher Rabindranath Tagore.
Coloring books for adults are an intriguing new hobby, breaking into the mainstream like the young-adult fiction boom before them.
Are too many taking liberties with the logic of our freedoms? A smart reassessment of Henry David Thoreau’s work spotlights key related issues.
Rubens’ Prometheus literally flips Michelangelo’s Christ on his head to look at art and gods in a whole new way.
Vince Lombardi famously once said, “Winners never quit. Quitters never win.” But a new study finds otherwise.
Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Joel and Ethan Coen are bringing it all together.
People go a little nuts when entire cities lose electrical power, and blackout events are getting more frequent, not less.
This could really revolutionize higher education.
Beauty and duty are increasingly involved in an undeclared conflict. It’s not a fair fight; one side is much stronger (illustrating how art works on our “hidden brain”).
Sure their students won a debate against Harvard, but that’s only one reason the Bard Prison Initiative is changing the way we think about criminals.
This is a great way of understanding the difference between artificial intelligence and genuine intelligence, i.e., human intelligence.
It’s an app that creates more fear than love and has more potential to ruin lives than boost them.
Shame is an all-purpose word these days, but how does that affect the real victims?
Vilhelm Hammershøi’s tranquil, yet unsettling interiors make him the most influential artist you’ve never heard of.
In order to bring conflicting countries closer together mentally, experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats wants to bring them closer together physically. He proposes action that would speed up Earth’s tectonic activity and lead to the rapid formation of a new supercontinent.