The book Buddha Takes the Mound delivers an engaging and sophisticated account of Buddhism’s worldview through the prism of baseball.
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It’s better to pursue moral actions instead of the ephemeral state of happiness, according to the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
This storm rained electrons, shifted energy from the sun’s rays to the magnetosphere, and went unnoticed for a long time.
Studio Ghibli movies celebrate the natural world using a very Japanese mixture of Shinto, Buddhist, and Daoist themes.
Technologically, the answer is definitely no. But that doesn’t mean CGI is always used to good effect.
What’s the difference between brainwashing and rehabilitation?
Even addition has to play by different rules for black holes. How do you add 28 and 47 together? This simple math question helps us highlight the many different ways that […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already changed the world. AI algorithms have been incorporated into everyday applications—such as social media, web mapping, facial recognition, and virtual home assistants—to make them more […]
Geologists discover a rhythm to major geologic events.
The two-year pilot program will be a test of harm reduction strategies.
“Superjobs” – roles that integrate human and machine skills – will require careful consideration.
Infrared, visible, and ultraviolet combine to show us Jupiter’s features as never before. The largest planet in our Solar System, Jupiter, is our own ‘failed star.’ The best evidence-based classification scheme […]
Sound waves behave quite differently on Mars than on Earth.
It is estimated that as many as 488 million people worldwide were exposed to dangerously long working hours in 2016.
To enable us to read, the brain piggybacks on other cognitive processes.
With sea levels rising, the Dutch are pondering floating cities — while also exporting their engineering know-how to turn a tidy profit.
Most of us will never run a 4 minute mile. But on a bicycle, almost anyone can do it. As human beings, we often take for granted how our bodies work. […]
Eight-eyed arachnids can tell when an object’s movement is not quite right.
Is Bitcoin akin to ‘digital gold’?
If dark energy gets stronger with time, our fate could be an utter catastrophe. When it comes to the entire Universe, one of the biggest existential questions we’re capable of […]
The mediocrity principle is often used to make claims about the abundance of life across the universe, but these claims are likely unfounded.
Winner takes all, losers die, and participants have no choice but to play.
Looking with lasers, researchers discovered that many Olmec and Mayan ruins seem to have been constructed from the same blueprint.
If we are wreaking havoc on ourselves and the world, it is because we have become mesmerized by a mechanistic, reductionist way of thinking.
Alzheimer’s disease is frightening, but the right combination of lifestyle choices can reduce your risk.
A warming Arctic Circle could be responsible for bursts of cold weather in the south.
In determining what qualifies as solid science, controversy is inevitable.
Study confirms the existence of a special kind of groupthink in large groups.
Can Detroit get its comeback right?
At a fundamental level, nobody knows whether gravity is truly quantum in nature. A novel experiment strongly hints that it is.