L..A. Paul spent her career at Yale studying the decisions that remake you from the inside out — and why rational thinking fails exactly when you need it most.

"The thing that the nihilist recognizes is that the values he or she holds are not grounded in anything other than their own preferences."

Having explored the Mariana Trench, the summit of Everest, and the edge of space, Victor Vescovo knows what awe feels like in its most dramatic forms. What surprised him most was how often that same feeling appears in everyday life.

Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, rock icon Steve Albini, and comedian Fred Armisen told Kmele how they make sense of the world — and leave their mark on it.

Dispatches host Kmele Foster is on a journey to understand humanity’s role in the cosmos. His first stop? The Atacama Plateau in Northern Chile, home to the darkest deserts and largest telescopes on earth.

Sabine Hossenfelder discusses the physics of… dead grandmothers?

“The very best arguments against God have been formulated by believers.”

From superstition to religion, we are surrounded by supernatural thinking. Is that a bad thing?

"Supernatural thinking is actually an important part of being a complete human being."

There are two kinds of suffering. One is pure pain. The other makes life worth living.