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By not taking emergency action to combat climate change, we're gambling dangerously with the future.
It's a victory for homeless advocates on the West Coast, who say criminalizing homelessness is cruel and ineffective.
Thinning forests in the Western United States can save billions of gallons of water per year and improve conservation efforts.
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Laughing is so contagious that we often forget how subjective humor is.
It’s both accurate and slightly misleading to call the keto diet a “fad diet”. On the one hand, the keto diet has in recent years become a fad, taking over a […]
The hot Big Bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago, and there’s no other possible answer consistent with what we know today. Conceptually, it might seem like the simplest idea in existence […]
The Zen of choreographer Merce Cunningham comes alive in a new documentary about his life.
A growing body of research suggests that the "clinical pessimism" over treating psychopathy is unwarranted.
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Is it acceptable to write a story from the perspective of someone who is completely unlike you?
The most famous ‘supernova impostor’ of all could have died back in the 1840s. Here’s what we think kept it alive. In all of astronomy, no stellar event releases more energy […]
How an environmental theology class opened my eyes—and mind—to my biblical responsibility.
The inventor Nikola Tesla's esoteric beliefs included unusual theories about the Egyptian pyramids.
The axolotl is known to regrow its lower jaw, its retinae, ovaries, kidneys, heart, rudimentary lungs, spinal cord, and large chunks of its brain.
Many renowned writers have revelled in the gifts of their non-native tongues.
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"You get to this age, you realize that there are people who will not like what you do no matter what you do," says Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie.
"Body, breath, awareness…that's your life. Every problem you ever have, every joy you ever have, depends on that." In this week's episode of Think Again, host Jason Gots talks with acclaimed poet and zen teacher Norman Fischer about the imagination as a tool for living a good life.
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Perhaps sooner than we think, we'll need to examine the moral standing of intelligent machines.
The farther away they get, the smaller distant galaxies look. But only up to a point, and then they get magnified. Here’s how. Intuitively, we all know that when we see […]
We speak with cosmologist Dan Hooper, and ponder the literal edge of what we know about the Universe. Have you ever wondered what the first moments of our Universe were […]
Life forms on Earth are wildly varied, but scientists discover a single formula that predicts every one's life cycle.