“It is more human to laugh at life than to lament it.”
Entrenched business wisdom says that community-led economic systems are pure fantasy. Douglas Rushkoff disagrees.
How the Big Bang gave us time, explained by theoretical physicist.
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The right questions are those sparked from the joy of discovery.
When you bring two fingers together, you can feel them “touch” each other. But are your atoms really touching, and if so, how?
There might be a hard limit to our knowledge of the Universe.
Personal finance advice is often over-simplified and fails to consider economic research or people’s unique circumstances.
Some Europeans really don’t want to use the internet.
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.
Size matters, but it’s not the only thing.
To Einstein, nature had to be rational. But quantum physics showed us that there was not always a way to make it so.
Warm relationships protect your mind and body from the slings and arrows of life.
Close to 70% of drugs advertised on TV offer little to no benefit over other cheaper drugs.
Rogue Putin is the biggest risk of 2023. Here are the other nine, explained by global political expert Ian Bremmer.
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Sniffing out a deal.
In Einstein’s relativity and the Standard Model, we only have three spatial dimensions. But there could be more, and many think there are.
One study suggested that the “Methuselah Star” is older than the Universe itself.
Created in the 1880s, “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan,” which depicts a father murdering his son, divides Russians to this day.
Some objects were softer than others.
It is estimated that as many as 488 million people worldwide were exposed to dangerously long working hours in 2016.
Addicted to spending money you want to save? Here’s how to stop.
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Capacitors, acid batteries, and other methods of storing electric charges all lose energy over time. These gravity-fed batteries won’t.
The Centennial State is technically a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon.
Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.
When we don’t find ways to relieve chronic stress, personal burnout is the likely consequence.
Make it simple. Make it clear. Make it stick. Alan Alda on how to get everyone to understand your thoughts.
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Give yourself (and others) a break.
Humanity’s newest, most powerful space telescope is performing even better than predicted. The reason why is unprecedented.
Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.
Millennials are reversing a 40-year decline in stroke deaths.