The truth may be out there — but it’s not in these close encounters of the third kind.
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People living in non-industrialized societies don’t get pimples.
“It is healthy and normal to be afraid of death.”
Today, the star-formation rate across the Universe is a mere trickle: just 3% of what it was at its peak. Here’s what it was like back then.
Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where’s everyone else?
If our goal is to effect the greatest possible progress, what would it look like to approach this holistically? What might need to dispositionaly in how we approach solving our most important problems—at an individual level, a community level, or at a civilizational or global one? We asked our experts to think big picture about how what new thinking would be required to create a larger pro-progress framework.
From the Notre Dame to Buddhist statues, dozens of irreplaceable artifacts are destroyed every year by both man and nature.
The game of Plinko perfectly illustrates chaos theory. Even with indistinguishable initial conditions, the outcome is always uncertain.
19 rooms. 1,636 square feet. 1,800 years of history.
If there are human-sized creatures walking around on other planets, would we be able to view them directly?
Creating a culture of innovation requires champions and cheerleaders at every level and in every function within an organization.
It might seem petty and shallow to get upset over a bad gift, but there’s often a deeper reason behind the feeling.
Between the hedonic and eudaimonic life, there’s a happy medium to be found.
It turns out it’s hard to make work at an Amazon warehouse fun.
For generations, physicists have been searching for a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity isn’t actually quantum at all?
Our concept of “failure” is way too narrow.
Immersive learning creates an interactive environment in which learners have the power to customize their experience.
The time to begin exploring VR training is now. Here are the pros, cons, and different ways this technology can be utilized.
You’ve spent almost a decade gaining extremely specialized skills. But that’s ok; your value is greater than you realize.
Man seeking meaningful relationship at the intersection of on-demand empathy and Rule 34.
It’s deceptively tricky to distinguish living systems from non-living systems. Physics may be key to solving the problem.
“Values emphasizing tolerance and self-expression have diverged most sharply, especially between high-income Western countries and the rest of the world.”
If you can model anything in the Universe with an equation, mathematics is how you get the solution(s). Physics must go a step further.
“Uitwaaien” is a popular activity around Amsterdam—one believed to have important psychological benefits.
Is science absolute? Its truths and discoveries guide us toward the nature of reality, but we must always remain open-minded to revisions.
Lab-grown meat may work better as a complement to animal agriculture rather than a replacement of it.
How many tins of beans make a stockpile, and when does a basement become a bunker?
Kaelynn Partlow shares her story about life with autism, ADHD, and dyslexia, and how finding the right diagnosis helped her embrace her neurodivergent identity.
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The sharpest optical images, for now, come from the Hubble Space Telescope. A ground-based technique can make images over 100 times sharper.
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”