New ideas inevitably face opposition. A new book called "The Human Element" argues that overcoming opposition requires understanding the concepts of "Fuel" and "Friction."
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The last 70 years have taken us farther than the previous 70,000. But can we accomplish more than creating a record saying, "We were here?"
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Jean Paul Sartre summed up the existentialist idea of "bad faith" through a waiter who acted a bit too much like a waiter.
What does it mean to "lead without authority"?
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Nothing meaningful is done quickly.
Personal finance advice is often over-simplified and fails to consider economic research or people’s unique circumstances.
Holograms preserve all of an object's 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
Although we still don't know the question, we know that the answer to life, the Universe, and everything is 42. Here are 5 possibilities.
2023's Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.
Thought expriments are great tools, but do they always do what we want them to?
We all know assholes. Perhaps, you are one. Now, psychologists are trying to answer one of life's biggest mysteries: What, exactly, makes someone an asshole?
For some people, there is only one thing to live for. They commit their entire being to that thing. They are dangerous.
Zircons in a Martian meteorite widens the possible timeframe for life on Mars.
The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.
Is LK-99 truly a room temperature superconductor? These 4 tests, none of which have yet been passed, will separate fact from fiction.
A new study bases its calculations on more than the great white shark.
Humanity can avoid catastrophe — if we look beyond our blinkered present.
All biological systems are wildly disordered. Yet somehow, that disorder enables plant photosynthesis to be nearly 100% efficient.
Can a war be won from the air? A group of renegade pilots in the 1930s thought so.
When the average person has a "theory," they're just guessing. But for a scientist, a theory is the pinnacle of what we can achieve.
Your life is far more arbitrary than you might think.
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In special relativity, the statement that two events happened at the same time is meaningless.
Such massive, early supermassive black holes have puzzled astronomers for decades. At last, we've finally figured out how they form.
It might seem like science and faith are at war, but the two have a historical synergy that extends back in time for centuries.
We forget how unnatural a lot of formal education is. "Learning how to learn" requires bridging the gap between the abstract and the natural.
Being mortal makes life so much sweeter.
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