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The emotional support of a simple text may be enough to ease the pain of someone you hold dear.
Over 700 pilgrims were killed by a stampede en route to Mecca. Why do some choose to celebrate such tragedies?
An incredible art project creates a new, tiny world every day. “I’d rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.”–Mohsin Hamid As small as it is […]
A report by the WHO has named bacon and other processed meats as bad for you as cigarettes, alcohol, and asbestos.
A concern with quiet students’ well-being should not push us back to outdated educational models.
There are lots of wrong reasons out there, but only one that matters. “The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in […]
When a trophy just for showing up does more damage than good.
The median house price in London’s most expensive borough is almost six times as high as in its cheapest one.
Astrophysicists contemplate whether “mirror” dark matter causes cancer.
At 104 years old, Grace Brett’s “yarn-bombing” of numerous towns in Scotland is a sight the whole world should see. “Some people become vandals because they want to make the […]
Author and entrepreneur Jerry Kaplan offers an interesting crash course on computational ethics, the idea that robots and machines will require programming to make them cognizant of morals, decorum, manners, and various other social nuances.
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The attack at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, Tunisia, on March 18, 2015, was an attack on civilization itself. Not just Tunisian civilization or Western civilization or Islamic civilization or Christian civilization — ALL civilization. ISIS may not have been directly involved in the Tunisian attack, but its iconoclastic, its “year zero” philosophy certainly was present. The fact that these attackers targeted tourists seeking out ancient civilizations rather than the artifacts of those ancient civilizations makes this latest tragedy even more chilling. The Bardo National Museum attacks may one day emerge as the first battle in the ultimate fight for civilization’s survival.
America is one of the wealthiest nations in the world, so how could people from much poorer ones be better off health-wise than us?
The benefits of playing games reach beyond just entertainment — they’re a great outlet. However, at the end of a stressful day, sitting down with a violent video game may not be the best idea.
Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Joel and Ethan Coen are bringing it all together.
In Munich last week, physicists and philosophers debate what makes for a scientific theory. Surprisingly, no one agrees. This piece was written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized […]
Until the Internet was allowed on commercial flights, the solution to assuage my fear of flying was to find the nearest airport pub and throw a few back before boarding the plane. That’s all changed.
Research has shown that drugs dogs routinely act based on the behavioral cues of their handlers, rather than acting on their sense of smell, raising important questions about the Fourth Amendment rights of anyone subject to search based on their actions.
ISIS routinely traffics and sells captured women and girls. Is buying them back fueling more terrorism?
Researchers find in a test of likeness, people choose photos that don’t represent them well at all.
The current length of maternity leave is one-size-fits-all, but what does that say about the value we place on balancing work and family?
I’m a granola-eating hippie liberal, and I kind of admire Carly Fiorina. What happens when we like a person, but hate their politics?
We often conflate the words ‘compassion’ and ’empathy’ but they have different meanings for a very important reason.
Say goodbye to being the smelly dude on the plane.
It’s extremely difficult for new technologies to also envision the ways we will relate to each other in the future.
With the amount of destruction we’re causing, is it time we curbed our own population?
The media, health personalities, and our own pedometers constantly tell us to aim for 10,000 steps a day. So, should we?
Words of wisdom from 19th century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard: “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”