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When we fail to help in a bad situation, we are morally responsible. So, why don’t we pick up others’ litter?
Many people perceive the struggle to understand our Universe as a battle between science and God. But this is a false dichotomy.
Satanic cultists don’t even believe the Devil exists. Satanism is largely a religion focused on secular humanism and hedonism.
Can AI-powered “answer engines” replace the 10 blue links model?
Without Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré, the genius of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer would have been lost to time.
A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.
What if intelligence can thrive without consciousness?
Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.
The threats Mars astronauts face — and how NASA is working to solve them.
Sometimes breaking a rule is the ethical thing to do.
Uncertainty is inherent to our Universe.
“Human connection is as threatened by unhealthy peace as it is by unhealthy conflict.” —Priya Parker
What responsibility do social media companies like Twitter have to free speech? It depends on whether they are “landlords” or “publishers.”
Impossible standards and poor self-understanding are making us miserable.
“Block. It puts some writers down for months. It puts some writers down for life.”
Research suggests that to maintain a healthy brain, we should tend our gut microbiome.
From the Big Bang to dark energy, knowledge of the cosmos has sped up in the past century — but big questions linger.
The anthropic principle has fascinating scientific uses, where the simple fact of our existence holds deep physical lessons. Don’t abuse it!
Psychologists often view relationship power imbalances through three unique dynamics.
Einstein’s laws of gravity have been challenged many times, but have always emerged victorious. Could wide binary stars change all that?
How drugs, demons, and the search for immortality gave us words we use everyday.
Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
In 2022, the probe will crash into an asteroid while a nearby satellite captures it on camera.
He is only out-sold by William Shakespeare and Lao Tzu.
If nature were perfectly deterministic, atoms would almost instantly all collapse. Here’s how Heisenberg uncertainty saves the atom.
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain “rewire” itself by forming new neural pathways.
Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
From Aristotle’s lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant’s “scientific” racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.