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Ever wonder what would happen if we got sucked into a black hole? Turns out we could live in it for a while — if it was big enough.
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Ancient societies revered dreams. Modern science tells us why.
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Not all conflict is bad. Expert Priya Parker explains how “heat” can be harnessed for good.
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Your chronological age and your biological age aren’t the same thing. This ex-Yale professor explains how to tell the difference.
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Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Nurse defines the 5 core principles of life.
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Forget AI. Gene editing is still our most powerful — and dangerous — technology.
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Why do the worst people rise to power? University College London professor Brian Klaas responds.
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Sabine Hossenfelder discusses the physics of… dead grandmothers?
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80% of the world was once polygamous. What happened?
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Why the best negotiators are nice, not tough.
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How America became a fragile nation — and how it can get its resilience back.
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You might suppress your emotions when you walk through the door at work. But your colleagues can still feel them.
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“If intelligence is the ability to respond to any argument, wisdom lies in knowing which parts of an argument to respond to.” Harvard debate coach Bo Seo explains how to argue better.
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“All the plausible paths to a really great future, involve the development of machine superintelligence at some point.”
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Expert Louise Perry discusses the idea of sexual disenchantment, the commodification of sex, and the impact of the online porn industry on society.
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This network scientist is creating a map of the human genome, and it could revolutionize the future of healthcare.
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Kids are more anxious and depressed than ever. Is identity politics to blame?
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Experimental neuroscientist Patrick McNamara on how we can harness spiritual experiences to explore alternate realities in our minds, and transform our models of the self.
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Americans without friends have increased 400% in recent years. Here’s why.
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What beavers and earthworms can teach us about working with, not against, Mother Nature.
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How to make money in business, with $100-million Salesforce pioneer Aaron Ross.
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What makes some scientists culturally significant, while others remain in obscurity? Well, there’s a science to it.
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No one is teaching us how to be online. That’s a problem.
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Your sexual education was probably inadequate. Here’s the information you always needed.
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It has perhaps never been easier to feel as if you’ve fallen behind in life. From the anxieties of comparing yourself to others online to our fetishization of success, it […]
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Steven Pinker explains how to cultivate greater rationality in today’s complex world.
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Find food, have sex, not die. That’s pretty much all we need to do — but why do we make it so complicated?
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Sexual attitudes are more man-like than ever. Here’s what that means for women.
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Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty reveals the secret to “good power.”
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Tim Ferriss has interviewed some of the most powerful thinkers in the world. This is what he learnt about how they operate.
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