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How the simple act of watching twilight can radically transform our perception of the world and our role within it.

To understand Vincent van Gogh, we must first debunk the myth of the tortured artist. Van Gogh believed his illness inhibited his creativity.

There’s such thing as a healthy sense of pride in oneself and one’s accomplishments.

There’s no upper limit to how massive galaxies or black holes can be, but the most massive known star is only ~260 solar masses. Here’s why.

This collection of learning and development quotes serves as a reminder of the meaning and purpose behind this important work.

An analogy explains the greater fool theory: You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away; you just have to run faster than the other guy.

Some Europeans really don’t want to use the internet.

What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.

Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of “The Immortality Key,” unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.

It took 9.2 billion years of cosmic evolution before our Sun and Solar System even began to form. Such a small event has led to so much.

Based on data since 2000 alone, global warming is still occurring at a whopping 7-sigma significance. How hot will planet Earth get?

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

After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.

A medical entomologist points to metabolism, body odor, and mindset.

Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.

From health to leadership abilities, a good sense of humor can help improve many aspects of life.

Art criticism is inherently subjective. Still, many critics have tried to make a case for why some of the world’s most celebrated books are in fact terribly written. 

The electoral reform also known as instant-runoff voting promises bridge-building and broad appeal instead of culture war and gridlock.

Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023’s Nobel Prize.

The Universe is precisely dated at 13.8 billion years old, but astronomers claim the Methuselah star is 14.5 billion years old. What gives?

About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]

“You gotta know when to fold ’em.”

Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.

From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we’re seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.

Mixed messages and competing interests have left college students feeling lost and stressed.

Each of us carries our own version of the Multiverse in our heads.

Discovered in 1900, the Saint-Bélec slab languished unrecognized in a castle basement for over a century.

The universe is filled with unlikely events, but is also full of ways to fool ourselves.

Your bites will heal, but will you ever sleep well again after an infestation of bloodsucking parasites?

This everyday electrical phenomenon had no widely accepted scientific explanation — perhaps, until now.