Barbara J. King on animal emotions, anthropomorphism, and the future of the planet.
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The term socialism makes political discourse difficult. Should we do away with it altogether?
With the seemingly endless growth of the Democratic primary field, we may suffer from choice overload. The result? In fear of making the wrong choice, we may fail to make any — i.e., don’t vote.
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“Nothing but naked people: fat ones, thin ones, old, young…”
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After living through a terrible epidemic, two inventors have created a self-cleaning door handle.
With the realization that overdue charges disproportionately affect access for low-income readers, libraries are reconsidering the value of fees.
An astrophysicist proposes new designs for stellar engines that can move a solar system.
“Sea of Shadows” is a documentary you can’t afford to miss.
Political activism may get people invested in politics, and affect urgently needed change, but it comes at the expense of tolerance and healthy democratic norms.
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A long-ridiculed theory about humankind’s early leap of consciousness is revived.
“We seem to be racing toward a new configuration of government and industry without having fully thought through all of the implications,” Steve Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, told MIT Technology Review.
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The new trust busting battles begin.
The impact of giving up is exactly the same as the impact of denying climate change.
Technology holds the promise of a better future, but our footprint on the planet threatens to undo all our dreams and progress. It’s pretty easy to look at the world […]
You’d have to throw out a lot of known physics for this to even be a possibility. Here’s why. It’s an undeniable scientific fact that dark matter must exist in order […]
Scientists from John Hopkins find a material for quantum computing.
Is there anyone who hasn’t at one time or another found themselves procrastinating? It can gradually become a terrible trap: As a deadline looms, the task seems to grow bigger […]
The Taoist idea of wu wei is deeply rooted in Chinese culture. Often translated as “non-doing” or “non-action,” it’s an effortless state in which you’re not explicitly aware of yourself […]