The global extent of the Revolutionary War surprises many Americans today — but it was crucial to independence.
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The Universe is grand, awe-inspiring, and greater than we likely imagine. Even astrophysicists get anxious thinking about it, but we cope.
We will become billions of people who share a single vast intellect.
The chances that a newborn survives childhood have increased from 50% to 96% globally.
From the laying out of the body plan to the organization and functioning of our nervous system, cells rule gene expression and make us who and what we are.
Just like with AI, people worried about job security and the spread of disinformation. Machines were destroyed and book merchants were chased out of town.
When leaders connect enterprise ambition with the driving spirit of activism, everyone wins.
The former Nintendo president has become synonymous with the backlash against layoffs — because, like a great leader, he focused on lifting people.
One reason saving is hard: We tend to view our “future selves” as complete strangers, and our decisions in the present moment reflect that.
The technology is not a replacement for human labor — it’s a way to complement existing human tasks.
Since 2012, the amount of time that teenagers spend socializing in person has plummeted. Is it a coincidence that depression is more common?
Fire was crucial to the evolution of human technology. That’s why alien species stuck in the “oxygen bottleneck” may be forever primitive.
If the Universe is expanding, and the expansion is accelerating, what does that tell us about the cause of the expanding Universe?
It is wrong to think that these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.
We got lucky with our evolutionary history.
You can only create or destroy matter by creating or destroying equal amounts of antimatter. So how did we become a matter-rich Universe?
For thousands of years, we puzzled at how far away the Moon was. Today we know its distance, at any time, to within millimeters.
The stench of death is actually fairly pleasant.
Even after the first stars form, those overdense regions gravitationally attract matter and also merge. Here’s how they grow into galaxies.
In the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have existed. Why aren’t they equal today?
That scary swirling void from which nothing can escape is our perfect universal translation tool.
Stoicism is popular today but often misunderstood and misapplied. In fact, a naive interpretation of Stoicism is damaging to your well-being.
Using peach and eggplant emojis as shorthand for sex may seem like a new thing, but Renaissance artists were experts at using produce to imply intercourse.
No matter what physical system we consider, nature always obeys the same fundamental laws. Must it be this way, and if so, why?
The Big Bang is commonly misunderstood, warping our understanding about the Universe’s size and shape.
Simple physics makes hauling vast ice chunks thousands of miles fiendishly difficult — but not impossible.
Nobody knows where the word “penguin” comes from.
Before we formed stars, atoms, elements, or even got rid of our antimatter, the Big Bang made neutrinos. And we finally found them.
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.