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If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.

What value does wit hold in genres defined by brute strength?

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.

Presidential gravesites are spread out “democratically” — but this is more by accident than design.

Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.

There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.

The light from Earendel took 12.9 billion years to reach Hubble. The star is millions of times brighter than our Sun and 50 times as massive.

These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.

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

Mary Toft staged an elaborate hoax, but the pain was real.

Symbolic gestures often speak to our psyche in ways no rational action could ever speak to our intellect.

One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.

Gravitation, all on its own, can reveal what’s present in the cosmos like nothing else.

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.

Think therapy is self-centered? Think again.

After 70 years, “The Power of Positive Thinking” remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.

The early colonists thought they were being pulled by God into a void left by plague.

“We’re acting more like fans of a football team going to a game than a banker carefully choosing investments.”

Science continues to amplify our view of reality.

When it comes to behavior, genetics may play a larger role than you think.

The author of classics like “A Farewell to Arms” and “The Sun Also Rises” is known and loved for his simple yet effective writing style. Here’s how to imitate it.

The Assam stone jars were described as early as 1929. Almost a century later, archaeologists still puzzle over their placement and purpose.

If something is “true,” it needs to be shown to work in the real world.

Astronomers possibly solve the mystery of how the enormous Oort cloud, with over 100 billion comet-like objects, was formed.

The controversy over the universe’s expansion rate continues with a new, faster estimate.

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About 150 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod came down with a respiratory infection. The rest is history…or is it? 

Movie soundtracks don’t just help us recall the plot of a film; they also allow us to better understand its meaning.

Why does Seattle continue to be a place that nurtures the development of breakthrough technologies but not Minneapolis, Memphis, or Minsk?