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Lab-grown, cultured meats, dairy, and leather will be hitting shelves soon. Paul Shapiro reports on the coming trend in his new book, Clean Meat.
The most influential contemporary scientists and their accomplishments.
Will primetime philosophy work on German TV?
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “One of the things that I think is missing in the educational pipeline in America is… a class on what science is, and how and why it works.”
In his book, The Attention Merchants, Tim Wu claims we now worship celebrities like deities. This can lead to all sorts of problems.
A new system proposes a voucher system for the .S. that could increase organ donations.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Geneticist Jennifer Doudna on the profound implications of her CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology for the future of humanity.
Socrates: what a dummy.
Are Macron and Le Pen re-enacting a centuries-old conflict?
Rationality isn’t the rule, it’s rare. That’s true of the sort of optimizing rationality that economists presume we all have (even though many economists themselves fall short of that standard).
There are many people who preach the supposed benefits of psychedelics, but none do it as well, nor as reliably, as these philosophers and scientists.
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker has introduced the Marijuana Justice Act, a federal bill that would nationally legalize marijuana.
We are what we are because of genes; we are who we are because of memes. Philosopher Daniel Dennett muses on an idea put forward by Richard Dawkins in 1976.
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Researchers at the University of Waterloo have connected inattention and giving up on your dreams.
A new study challenges what we understand about the workings of time.
Because intelligence is not the same thing as rationality.
Stephen Hawking has accepted an offer to go to space. He’s one of the world’s most famous scientists, who’s been paralyzed due to ALS for much of his life.
A new study questions why some people support “free speech”.
The new Carbon Majors Report 2017 puts all the greenhouse-gas puzzle pieces together in one eye-popping report.
Work on “memes” by Richard Dawkins provides insight on the spread of thought viruses.
A new report shows a marked uptick in individualism worldwide. The collective voice of societies will be the loser.
A new study says some TV viewers are more moral than others. What kind of viewer are you?
19% of American soldiers returned from Vietnam addicted to heroin. 95% of them recovered without relapse. How?
“Atheist churches” are popping up across the US and Europe. Is it just a trend?
75% of all people will live through a traumatic event. 35-37% will experience PTG.
Researchers may have discovered the oldest homo sapiens yet, in Morocco.
Why is Machiavelli’s The Prince still relevant today?
Where are the four “horsewomen” of new atheism? Well, here are two of them, secular scholars Rebecca Goldstein and Susan Jacoby.
The environmental legacy of this generally disgraced President is second to none.