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If you lost your religion, it might be because the internet and social media are having a secularizing effect on American society.
Kids are fragile. They should trust their feelings. The world is a battle between good and evil. We should stop repeating these untruths.
Science will lead us to a universal morality and a cosmic religion.
For Buddhists, the “Four Noble Truths” offer a path to lasting happiness.
Take a closer look at the different types of reasoning you use every day.
Most philosophers merely contemplate the world, but what about the ones who actually tried to change it?
Unlock the full potential of your creativity with holistic detachment. This is the way of the editor.
Radical Emotional Acceptance calls on you to celebrate all of life’s emotions — even the negative ones.
Humans are good visual thinkers, too, but we tend to privilege verbal thinking.
Adopting a healthy scepticism towards inherited ideas means “emptying the container of the Self.”
“It is more human to laugh at life than to lament it.”
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.
Give yourself (and others) a break.
“Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea.”
“For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD.”
Computerized, job-focused learning undercuts the true value of higher education. Liberal arts should be our model for the future.
Hinduism emphasizes the journey, whichever path that takes. And it holds us responsible for our own self-improvement.
It was originally recorded in the 1970s by cognitive psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.
To the Greek philosopher, all of our actions ultimately aim at our own pleasure.
“Lethal autonomous weapon” sounds friendlier than “killer robot.”
If aliens are driven mostly by biological imperatives, humanity could be in big trouble if we ever meet technologically advanced beings.
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that we often don’t truly want to obtain what we think we desire.
Sight helps you see a room, but interoception lets you sense it from inside your own body.
Zen masters often have strikingly different ideas about how to live and attain enlightenment.
“Carpe diem” was only one part of Horace’s poem Odes 1.11.
The insanity of the academic job market laid out in numbers.
There is more consensus on what heaven looks like than hell.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
Buddhism has rules for slaying your enemies. But the real surprise is finding out who your enemies actually are.