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Bending, breaking, & blending: How humans remake the world. Neuroscientist David Eagleman on creativity.
Today’s children and youth are very tech savvy and easily use tablets, laptops, and smartphones to access the Internet, play games and consume media. AR can put that on fast-forward.
Spoiler: it isn’t the end of the Universe, and it’s not likely to lead to new evidence for the Multiverse, either. On March 14, 2018, the most famous and celebrated […]
100,000 years of human history and young adulthood is still getting weirder. Noël Wells on art, power, and our super dark times.
Fatih Akin has first-hand experience of strong cultural cross-winds. Ethnically Turkish and raised in Germany, he has made many films dealing with sudden dislocation and how people respond to it.
‘Luck’ is the wrong word. The Universe cooperated, but we gave ourselves the opportunity by being prepared. It was already 28 years ago that the Hubble Space Telescope was launched […]
The Oscars has produced a number of controversial speeches in the past. This year will likely not divert from that path.
Here are some of the best books on the rich history, rabid speculations and intriguing fictionalized world of artificial intelligence.
It’s so much more than mass-energy equivalence; it’s the key to unlocking the quantum Universe. For hundreds of years, there was an immutable law of physics that was never challenged: […]
“Enforcing language norms is a way of enforcing power structures.”
Terrorism. Technological disruption. Globalization. Life in the 1870’s was wild. Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff on Joseph Conrad, his times, and ours.
In his latest book, Fantasyland, Kurt Andersen covers the first five hundreds years of American magical thinking.
Dark matter feels fake. MOND sounds plausible. What should you conclude? Imagine I told you that everything you ever saw, touched, or experienced — in this world and in the Universe beyond — was […]
In his latest book, Will Storr traces the lineage from self-esteem to selfie.
One of the tangible benefits of religion is the community it can foster. What happens when those social connections start to decay?
As human beings we all must do some work for basic survival—but how much? Is there a “minimum daily requirement” of work?
For thousands of years, all over the world, we’ve told tales of monsters and the undead. Why? Aaron Mahnke, creator of the ‘Lore’ podcast, on the hunger for mystery.
The fragility of digital memory could let the entire story of our time turn to sand.
Unless you can make a force that travels faster than the speed of light, a singularity is inevitable. The more mass you place into a small volume of space, the […]
Today millions are celebrating the resurrection of Christ, yet there were many gods before him with similar stories.
When was the last time you were well and truly bored? If you can’t remember, you’re not alone. Manoush Zomorodi on what our brains really need, and what they’re getting.
A game designer creates games that can change attitudes and behaviors.
In her book, The Power of Meaning, Emily Esfahani Smith details the four pillars of meaning, arguing that they’re much more important than chasing happiness.
You’ve heard of the big Greek philosophers. Now, read about the ones who inspired them.
When you look at the history of it, a strange pattern emerges.
Is it ever okay to believe in things we consider to be impossible or extremely improbable?
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“The starting point for understanding inequality in the context of human progress is to recognize that income inequality is not a fundamental component of well-being.”
Jellyfish have their tentacles all tangled up in our lives in ways we’re only dimly aware of.