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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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Cornel West talks about everyday poets, being the best of the human species, hope, what wokeness really means, and revolution.
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The best career advice that you are not getting? Financial feminist and Wall Street powerhouse Sallie Krawcheck delivers.
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The World Science Festival just wrapped earlier this month. Here’s 4 top World Science Festival sessions that ORBITER recommends.
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The clash of tectonic plates beneath us is just part of life on Earth—unless, of course, there is human interference like in the American Midwest.
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If people who experience near-death experiences have less fear of death, could an out-of-body experience through virtual simulation lead to the same result?
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Having trouble learning? Take a break and your brain will process the information. You’ll learn better and faster.
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Is all life on Earth bound together by mathematics?
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It’s all in your mind. Really. Everything bad in the world might be coming from one particular part of the human brain.
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Natural selection has left us with a world of optimists—is this healthy?
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“We don’t notice one another nearly as much as we think we do,” says Alan Alda. Here’s how the actor inspired a scientific study on empathy.
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There’s something all of us—physicists included—are getting wrong about dark matter, says Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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This week, Bill Nye tackles one of the most complicated hypotheticals of all time.
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We tell Google things we wouldn’t tell our loved ones, or even our own doctors.
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Should scientists and the more technological minded be given more power in a capitalist world?
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Russian hacking is changing the game in global warfare by taking the battlefield to the internet, where Facebook is the front line.
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Can democracy remain vibrant if the public, and especially children, don’t have the tools to distinguish sense from nonsense?
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Career global security expert Richard Clarke identifies three potential game changing events that could adversely affect the wellbeing of humanity itself.
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