When we don’t find ways to relieve chronic stress, personal burnout is the likely consequence.
Make it simple. Make it clear. Make it stick. Alan Alda on how to get everyone to understand your thoughts.
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Give yourself (and others) a break.
Humanity’s newest, most powerful space telescope is performing even better than predicted. The reason why is unprecedented.
Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.
Millennials are reversing a 40-year decline in stroke deaths.
Once activated, the CRISPR-Cas12a2 system goes on a rampage, chopping up DNA and RNA indiscriminately, causing cell death.
Despite being called the “dismal science,” economics impacts our lives every day. Here, we look at seven of the greatest economists in history.
A new study of global love finds that Americans have some of the most loving relationships, while Chinese and Germans have some of the least.
It may be possible to give people the tools to withstand difficulty before it attaches to them.
A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.
Strategy advisor Roger Martin explains how 2,000 year old military thinking is useful in modern business strategy.
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If life is common in the Universe, then where is everybody? Known as the Fermi Paradox, a new project may help solve the riddle.
Individual space telescopes, like Hubble and JWST, revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe. What if we had an array of them, instead?
Einstein tried to disprove quantum mechanics. Instead, a weird concept called entanglement showed that Einstein was wrong.
Day trading has the potential to yield incredible profits, but without a time machine, you’re unlikely to achieve them.
“Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea.”
The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.
“For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD.”
The central equation of quantum mechanics, the Schrödinger equation, is different from the equations found in classical physics.
The best-laid plans of mice and everyone else.
Pathogenic, self-propagating proteins called prions found in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s are also found in Down syndrome patients.
How do we deal with information overload and unlock creativity? Build a second brain.
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It isn’t just identical particles that can be entangled, but even those with fundamentally different properties interfere with each other.
Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores — and now virivores.
There are four money personality types. Which are you?
Computerized, job-focused learning undercuts the true value of higher education. Liberal arts should be our model for the future.
And it’s much, much less expensive.
From COVID and cancer vaccines to a steady drop in the number of people living in extreme poverty, there are reasons for optimism in 2023.
The last naked-eye Milky Way supernova happened way back in 1604. The next one could be the key to solving the dark matter mystery.