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Once a cosmopolitan faith, Islam valued intellectualism and modernity. It was derailed by various geopolitical and religious forces.
Most things in the world can be seen in surprisingly different ways.
Mind Bank Ai is the newest entrant in an ambitious idea: using AI to create a kind of immortality.
From boosting empathy to improving therapy, virtual reality is poised to change our ideas of the self.
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Scientists want to use dream hacking devices to improve your creativity and memory.
The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists has a cause, and what caused the Universe? It’s got to be God.
Forget about the terawatt lasers we’re making on Earth. This natural one is thousands of times more powerful than the Sun.
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No. But Buddhism and quantum mechanics have much to teach each other.
Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
Earth is not a benign mother. We have begun to witness what happens when it unleashes its fury.
If the metaverse is money, then companies will certainly want to play, too.
In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.
Think of the nicest person you know. The person who would fit into any group configuration, who no one can dislike, or who makes a room warmer and happier just […]
The number of people with whom we interact is highest around 40, but then things change substantially after that.
Einstein’s “happiest thought” led to General Relativity’s formulation. Would a different profound insight have led us forever astray?
One bill hopes to repeal the crime of selling sex and expand social services; the other would legalize the entire sex trade.
Emotional intelligence is a skill sought by many employers. Here’s how to raise yours.
Zircons in a Martian meteorite widens the possible timeframe for life on Mars.
Do your kids a favor and give them the gift of philosophy this Christmas.
Individual space telescopes, like Hubble and JWST, revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe. What if we had an array of them, instead?
The game of Plinko perfectly illustrates chaos theory. Even with indistinguishable initial conditions, the outcome is always uncertain.
Democritus also did not believe in free will but was still known as the “laughing philosopher.”
If something is “true,” it needs to be shown to work in the real world.
If we were born trillions of years in the future, could we even figure out our cosmic history?
When we look out at the Universe, even with Hubble, we’re only seeing the closest, biggest, brightest galaxies. Here’s where the rest are.
The wise, the old, and the experienced matter to a full and happy life.
There are a few possible solutions to the problem of interstellar travel, but they largely remain within the realm of science fiction.