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.
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.
In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”
Laser-guided lightning systems could someday offer much greater protection than lightning rods.
Meet your new flying nightmare: Thapunngaka shawi.
Find it easier to sort out your friends’ problems than your own? This paradox is for you.
“What you pay attention to, is your life.” Where do you place precious brain resources?
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Most globular clusters appear to form their stars all at once, but there are exceptions. JWST just observed how “second formations” happen.
The vaccine provided protection for mouse and ferret models.
Do humans have souls, or are we just particles? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains.
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Automation could help fix the company’s financial troubles.
Here on Earth, the Sun is our primary source of light, heat, and energy. But it also poses a grave threat to human civilization.
Most popular songs are about love and heartache. But some great songs — albeit underrated and perhaps a bit weird — are about the cities we love.
A disturbing interview given by a KGB defector in 1984 describes America of today and outlines four stages of mass brainwashing used by the KGB.