The German thinker wrote both treatises and songs. He approached each form of expression with the same level of interest.
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The credibility problem facing the biomedical and public health establishment is, at least in part, a product of its own making.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
Historically, periods of mass flourishing are underpinned by technological revolutions. Currently, we are undergoing a technological revolution unlike anything the world has ever seen.
Not nearly well enough. And we should all be concerned. In 1859, the science of solar physics truly began with the largest eruption in recorded history: the Carrington event. Prior […]
For the past 150+ years, the big ones have all missed us. But at some point, our good luck will run out.
Scientists have found evidence of hot springs near sites where ancient hominids settled, long before the control of fire.
This map of Europe’s 20 most populous islands holds a few surprises and unlocks a truckload of trivia.
On May 4, 1970, the National Guard shot and killed four students during an anti-war protest. The massacre went on to change American culture forever.
Clinical trials by Janssen Pharmaceuticals showed troubling results.
They’re not just a theoretical prediction of quantum gravity. They should be detectable, too. The Universe, if you look at it closely and carefully enough, is fundamentally quantum in nature. […]
Edinburgh University project geo-locates victims of Scottish ‘witch-prickers’ in the 16th and 17th century.
Of all the injustices in Nobel Prize history, her 1957 Nobel snub is the most egregious. One of the biggest scientific revolutions of the 20th century was the discovery of […]
This space expansionist ideology marked the beginning of what Arendt called “earth alienation.”
How did the Antarctic explorers survive tedium in the early 1900s?
Austro-Japanese aristocrat Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi later concentrated on plans for Pan-Europe.
Those ancient Chinese philosophers earned their insights.
Demanding appropriate levels of skepticism and scrutiny isn’t cruelty, but rather demonstrates scientific integrity and intellectual honesty. Every few months, a novel headline will fly across the world, claiming to […]
Half a billion people were infected.
From gun control to immigration, Americans remain split on a handful of contentious issues.
CERN’s bold new proposal has physicists confronting the biggest question of all: is building a new collider worth it? If you want to discover anything novel about the natural, physical […]
Within the next billion years, the Magellanic Clouds might merge with our galaxy. But the new stars are already here. Within the Milky Way, there are only a few instances of […]
What qualifies someone for the top position in American government?
It’s a pipe dream that violates the laws of physics, and not even quantum mechanics can give us a way out. One of the most fundamental rules of physics, undisputed since […]
A longstanding astronomical gap between neutron stars and black holes is finally coming to a close. Astronomy has taken us so far into the Universe, from beyond Earth to the planets, […]
Forget Copenhagen, Many-Worlds, Pilot Waves and all the others. What you’re left with is reality. When it comes to understanding the Universe, scientists have traditionally taken two approaches in tandem with […]
Why the effects of aging are detrimental to being the U.S. president.
It’s not what you have, it’s what you do with it.