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As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
The history of hell doesn’t begin with the Old Testament. Instead, hell took shape in the 2nd century from Mediterranean cultural exchange.
Einstein tried to disprove quantum mechanics. Instead, a weird concept called entanglement showed that Einstein was wrong.
Boredom isn’t the enemy; it’s a catalyst for changing your relationship to work.
Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.
An atheist’s case for why American democracy needs a more Christlike Christianity.
Research suggests that emotional intelligence is more vital for success than IQ.
If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.
Far from being a “dead” pursuit that focuses on old ideas, modern philosophy proposes and debates important, new concepts. All of us can learn from it.
“Time Warp” all the way back to 1800s spiritualism, magic performances, and spook shows.
These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.
There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.
Mary Toft staged an elaborate hoax, but the pain was real.
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What value does wit hold in genres defined by brute strength?
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“We’re acting more like fans of a football team going to a game than a banker carefully choosing investments.”
One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
Symbolic gestures often speak to our psyche in ways no rational action could ever speak to our intellect.
When it comes to behavior, genetics may play a larger role than you think.
There are dozens of instructional design models, but most learning designers rely on a select few. Here are four of the most common.
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
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After 70 years, “The Power of Positive Thinking” remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.
Think therapy is self-centered? Think again.
Different methods of measuring the Universe’s expansion rate yield high-precision, incompatible answers. But is the problem robustly real?
The early colonists thought they were being pulled by God into a void left by plague.
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