Among many others, Britain’s new Foreign Secretary has managed to offend the previous, current and future presidents of the U.S.
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Author-musician James McBride claims that James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, holds the secret to America’s race-torn soul.
The New York Times claimed that aliens must have existed at some point. But science is less certain. “There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve […]
The Global Challenges Foundation released a Global Catastrophic Risk Report last week. The results aren’t pretty. Or surprising.
Richard Feynman’s method for understanding science can also be used for detecting pseudoscience.
One turkey. Two types of muscles. Two different temperatures needed to cook properly. Put away the roasting pan and get ready to spatchcock the bird.
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It’s an old idea made new again, but it just might fall apart. “[The black hole] teaches us that space can be crumpled like a piece of paper into an infinitesimal […]
We’ve heard some pretty wild excuses to avoid clean energy. This one takes the cake.
We are at greater risk to a full-blown epidemic than at any time in history. What’s being done to stop it?
Spiritual capitalism started in the sixties. Today it has been mastered.
Chinese activist Ai Weiwei is the most political artist on Earth. Did he just sell his soul to a department store?
Not the show, the actual scientific theory itself! “Gamow was fantastic in his ideas. He was right, he was wrong. More often wrong than right. Always interesting; … and when his idea […]
World’s biggest island? Up for discussion. The next 25? See this map.
The lady birds in the “arranged marriage” group were less interested in hooking up with their partners, and were more likely to abandon their eggs.
We heard the news today, 46 years ago, that the Beatles were no more. But who was the real killer in the magical mystery tour of the Fab Four’s finale?
Words of wisdom from Maya Angelou: “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
Lemurs, humans, sea birds — they’re all at risk. But we can change our fates if we choose to acknowledge what’s happening.
American stuff is the stuff of American history, as recorded in still life painting.
When two of the largest cosmic structures crash together, the effects show up everywhere. Everywhere, that is, but the dark matter. “It may be that ultimately the search for dark matter […]
Words of wisdom from Maya Angelou: “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
Maycomb is not on any map of the real world, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be mapped.
If you want a vivid barometer for the health status of worldwide marine ecosystems, look no further than the global seabird population. Unfortunately, new research estimates that the global seabird population has dropped 70 percent since the 1950s. That’s not good.
We often conflate the words ‘compassion’ and ’empathy’ but they have different meanings for a very important reason.
It’s not that doing good is bad. Rather we get uncomfortable around those who are more altruistic than ourselves.
You’d think divorce lawyers would be making a killing over something like this. Apparently not.
Birds can differentiate empty peanut shells from full ones — without even cracking them open.
From “Border Walls” to “Anchor Babies,” the immigration debate heats up every American presidential election. An art instillation challenges the cruelty of much of that rhetoric and questions the very idea of borders.
Words of wisdom from the late, great Maya Angelou: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said; people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
How one researcher created a pirate bay for science more powerful than even libraries at top universities.