Through an analysis of popular names vs. gender in leadership positions, The New York Times compiles a ‘so sad it’s almost funny’ report on how real the glass ceiling is.
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The story of John Couch Adams, “the man who failed to discover Neptune,” and his cosmic redemption. Perhaps its human nature to want to only think positive thoughts about our […]
“People need to see something of a balance between effect and cause… that if something has a huge evil effect, it should be the result of a huge evil cause.”
After widespread criticism of Facebook’s handling of election meddling, fake news and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, investors are growing increasingly frustrated at the company’s leadership.
Sibling rivalries can lead to some impressive moments in history, how did these seven sets of siblings do?
Even before we have the James Webb Space Telescope, a controversy over when the first stars formed is growing. As far back as our most powerful telescopes have ever looked, we’ve […]
Feeling the urge to scare yourself this Halloween? Here are seven important horror films you have to see.
A recent poll shows a third of Americans think another civil war is likely. How worried should we be?
When you look at the history of it, a strange pattern emerges.
Kakistocracy is rule by the worst, but who are the worst? A better question, how do we know?
What is the American Dream? The ever-changing definition of it might surprise you nearly as much as what it used to mean.
Here are some of the best books on the rich history, rabid speculations and intriguing fictionalized world of artificial intelligence.
There’s a big reason no one, not even Stephen Hawking, could fill Carl Sagan’s shoes. Everyone has a unique story to tell. For scientists, that story is one that usually only […]
The 20th century is littered with failed global experiments. The British Empire roared into the century with the wind at its back, only to fall apart. The Russian Revolution promised […]
A new report charges that there hasn’t yet been enough concerted research on what makes a person become a mass shooter.
It’s tempting to think of the mind as a layer that sits on top of more primitive cognitive structures. We experience ourselves as conscious beings, after all, in a way […]
Americans are, often with justification, regarded as not being versed in philosophy. This is a shame, as the United States and the colonies that proceeded it have produced many great thinkers
Are there really no good action and adventure films anymore, or is there an inherent bias toward them?
A rare counter-example to the flood of Temperance maps, this Prohibition-era chart celebrates alcohol in its many forms
If the bolide had hit just 30 seconds later, we’d be looking at a very different Earth.
We compiled a list of seven of the greatest public speakers of all time, people who forever changed the course of history with their words.
How did black holes get so supermassive so fast? Astrophysics may be about to find out, thanks to three big 2017 discoveries. There’s a big problem when we look at […]
Imagine getting imperceptibly high, then playing Chinese strategy game ‘Go’. This is the experiment the Beckley Foundation will run to test the value of LSD microdosing.
If you think we’ve seen all there is to see in the Universe, you’re about to have your imagination unlocked. “Hubble often takes images of distant gravitationally lensed galaxies to […]
In this radical view, the universe is a giant supercomputer processing particles as bits.
Science can do a whole lot of things, but proving a scientific theory is still an impossibility. You’ve heard of our greatest scientific theories: the theory of evolution, the Big […]
“These facts have been presented time and again, year after year, for decades,” DiCaprio says. “Quite simply, we are knowingly doing this to ourselves.”
“We’re opening up a whole new territory of astronomy,” One NASA official said.
Studies using advanced space telescopes paint a fascinating picture of our early universe.
“No great genius has ever existed without a strain of madness.” -Aristotle