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The rise and fall of Josh Harris — the genius who anticipated the digital revolution just a little too soon.

“Is it possible that consciousness is a much more basic phenomenon in nature and is essentially pervading everything?”

“I think we need a truly open-ended conversation with 8 billion strangers, and what makes that hard to do increasingly is a level of political fragmentation and extremism and partisanship born of our engagement with these new technologies.”

“When Harry Met Sally” lied to you.

Instead of fear, his delusions bring him cheer. His psychiatrist embraces them.

How do you cope when joining a team shatters your confidence? Albert Camus and Harry Stack Sullivan can help.

From before the Big Bang to Voyager 1, particle physicist Harry Cliff takes us on a whiz-bang tour of the Universe’s evolution.

Want to write a time-travel story? Do so at your own risk.

Five times in U.S. history, American presidential candidates have ascended to leadership despite lacking the popular vote. Here’s how.

Do grim sci-fi scenarios crush our hopes for real-world growth? Author Michael Harris looks elsewhere to unblock the road to a better future.

The patron saint of calling BS, Harry Frankfurt, died watching his philosophy become more urgent than ever.

It was originally recorded in the 1970s by cognitive psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.

Does Platonic love actually exist?

From Hogwarts to hashtags, kids’ reading habits have changed drastically in recent decades — but data suggests cause for hope.

Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.

A recent study suggests that exposure to visual stimuli can diminish the effects of psychedelic drugs.

A researcher weighs in on who’s accountable, when and why, in the eyes of the law — and whether the measures work as intended.

This graph shows how badly German cities were hit by Allied bombing raids.

Philosopher Peter Singer argues it’s time to examine a morally dubious practice.

“Time Warp” all the way back to 1800s spiritualism, magic performances, and spook shows.

Esperanto was intended to be an easy-to-learn second language that enabled you to speak with anyone on the planet.

The record-breaking transmission could revolutionize deep space communication.

The Industrial Revolution changed music forever, thanks to a combination of technological advances and clever entrepreneurs.

Moral panics about the content of children’s cartoons and other forms of entertainment have a long history.

While GLP-1 agonists help people lose weight, different drugs could help them retain muscle at the same time.

Public mass shooters almost always have worldviews shaped by the “3 Rs”: rage, resentment, and revenge.

Two types of nanotechnology, metalenses and metamaterials, could soon make Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak a reality.

A new study provides the most detailed look at brains on psychedelics to date.

Rooted in Vedic philosophy, “anupalabdhi” — or “non-apprehension” — can help you exploit gaps in the market.

Will you die when your body dies?