Remember Stephen Hawking's robotic voice? It wasn’t a robot.
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Argentina's black market for cash is embracing crypto — but it's not what crypto proponents expected.
The inventor Nikola Tesla's esoteric beliefs included unusual theories about the Egyptian pyramids.
Galaxies can have regions both hotter and colder than the background radiation of the Universe. When we talk about the depths of space, we get this picture in our heads […]
With radio and X-ray data combined, we’re understanding how energy flows like never before. When we look out at the Universe on the largest cosmic scales of all, gravity is the […]
Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a well-known model of human development, but Maslow's friend and colleague Kazimierz Dąbrowski believed humans developed in a different way.
There are many things on large scales that also appear on small scales. But is the Universe truly a fractal? If you take a look at the structures that form in […]
Upstreamism advocate Rishi Manchanda calls us to understand health not as a "personal responsibility" but a "common good."
We have been rejecting science for far too long. We all need to embrace it. For as long as human civilization has existed, those societies that have embraced science have had […]
We’re still not sure what the ultimate question is. Here are 5 excellent candidates. One of the most amusing stories in all of science fiction is Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s […]
Is consciousness just a showdown between your beliefs and perceptions?
The controversy around the Torah codes gets a new life.
When it comes to cryptocurrency, Bitcoin has long been the king of the hill thanks to its status as the founder of the young industry and its first-mover appeal. A […]
Critics complain that Maslow's hierarchy of needs focuses too much on the West. Yet other cultures often have similar ideas about personal development.
Einstein's God is infinitely superior but impersonal and intangible, subtle but not malicious. He is also firmly determinist.
The two concepts might seem contradictory, but anarcho-capitalists exist.
As individuals, we scientists are all flawed. But the enterprise of science rises above our individual shortcomings. The enterprise of science is perhaps the greatest achievement in all of human […]
Is this the real life or is it just fantasy? And does it really even matter?
Famous inventors and scientists submission to the daily grind
Explore McLuhan's theory on print culture and its influential hold over civilization.
Then again, maybe the study is fake news too.
From psychology to neuroscience, what we believe is not nearly as relevant as why we do.
They fed it data from "the darkest corners of Reddit forums."
In more than a dozen countries as far apart as Portugal and Russia, 'Smith' is the most popular occupational surname
It's hard to quantify what it means to be good, but this framework takes a stab at breaking down what makes people behave nicely.
Computer art does not rival human art. Rather, art created by artificial intelligence is at once a compliment to the human brain, and a corollary to the achievements of oil paintings and classical music.
Renowned scientists and technologists who've passed away in 2018.
Depends on how you define it: Digging in to the science of what it means to be cool.
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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 […]