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Former tennis pro James Blake makes a case for transparency in police departments.
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If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. But if you’re a Michelin Star chef with a restaurant to run, you’re going to need a better coping strategy.
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California prisons are about as off-off-off-off Broadway as it gets—but that’s where the emotional tools of theatre can make the biggest difference to people’s lives.rn
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Primatologists and praying farmers show us why it takes a flexible brain, and many perspectives, to unlock truly groundbreaking science.
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Humans are a programmable species, and we live inside the most ancient operating system of all — ideology.
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Can computers be creative? Depends on whether you’re asking it to write music or write a novel.
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Can understanding science make pop culture better, and can understanding pop culture make science more interesting? Absolutely.
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Jennifer Doudna, the CRISPR co-creator, says that the genie of genetic engineering might be hard to put back in the bottle.
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Your brain stops at the most comforting thought. The truth is somewhere beyond that. Using scientific skepticism as a guide, astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss outlines the questions that critical thinkers ask themselves.
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Once upon a time, hope meant confronting suffering, not avoiding it. Have overly sugary connotations about hope diminished its true grit?
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Interest in learning certain skills, like computer science, can wax and wane with economic opportunity and job availability. But Gene Luen-Yang explains why it’s a valuable skill in any season.
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What people self-report about their sex lives can bear little relation to the truth. So how can the social status clinging to our conversations about sex be stripped away? Anonymous Google searches!
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We can’t seem to resist frequent rewards, which is why slot machines and social media are both so addictive. What’s more, they’re designed that way, purposefully, to keep you coming back.
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How is the rights movement progressing for LGBTQ people? Initial progress was made more quickly than anyone imagined, but lingering inequalities continue to stunt that rapid growth.
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Getting into an argument is easy. But getting out by having both sides see the other side? Not as impossible as you might think.
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Racism is the acting out of biases learned as early as preschool, research shows. If racism starts at three years old, so should science-backed strategies to reduce it.
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AI won’t really resemble humanoids. Instead, AI will create a world that countries and large companies can live in.
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Is creativity a wild and free state of mind, or is it actually a pattern that others just can’t recognize?
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Is race a trivial quality of humans, or of deep social importance? Who gets to decide whether race exists or not?
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Gene editing tool CRISPR could soon be lifting a page straight out of a Michael Crichton novel.
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You have three types of brain inside your brain. And they’re all fighting for dominance.
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How do we move from ‘ego’ to ‘we go’?
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Bennett Singer explains why coming out matters—for the LGBTQ community and the straight community alike, and especially for those who are not in a safe position to do so.
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You have to be a little envious of those who have faith—they have a motivational force behind them that is near impossible to beat. What if there was a secular equivalent, wonders philosophy professor Sam Newlands.
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Can you imagine owning nothing and having everything? Kevin Kelly has a either a startling window into the future or an idea that will make your head spin.
Goal setting is a hamster wheel, says Adam Alter. If you want to channel your best work and get off the failure circuit, set systems instead.
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ISIS, Hurricane Katrina, Fukushima—for each of these disastrous developments, there was someone with a bunch of data that no one would listen to.
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People tend to bandy around the term “scientific consensus” a lot, but what does it actually mean?
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Has CRISPR co-creator Jennifer Doudna invented the Pandora’s Box of genetic engineering, or can CRISPR be used for the forces of good?
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Everything is cheap and nobody has jobs. Welcome to the future. President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas fills us in on how we got here.
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