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Make Sunsets is bringing solar geoengineering from sci-fi to reality.
Do grim sci-fi scenarios crush our hopes for real-world growth? Author Michael Harris looks elsewhere to unblock the road to a better future.
High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.
From the laying out of the body plan to the organization and functioning of our nervous system, cells rule gene expression and make us who and what we are.
To advance the gender-affirming healthcare of all those who transition, we must also understand the nature and causes of those who detransition.
How does the mind interact with the body? Nobody really knows — but these philosophers ventured an answer.
Dancing, for Nietzsche, was another way of saying Yes! to life.
The heart of the religious ritual is mysticism, argues Brian Muraresku in "The Immortality Key."
Who is to blame for the U.S.'s dismal college graduation rate? "Radical" educator Dennis Littky has a hunch.
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Some hold that mental disorders are brain diseases. Others argue that they're social constructs used to medicalise aberrant behaviour.
People often incorporate lessons from fictional stories into their beliefs, attitudes and value judgments, sometimes without even being aware that they are doing so.
YouTube's constantly changing hate speech and harassment policies beg the question: Where exactly is the line?
A DNA test promises to reveal your hidden history — but is it all smoke and mirrors?
The American Psychological Association recently released guidelines for treating boys and men. Men aren't happy about it.
Can neuroscience provide an alternative hypothesis for the Mandela effect, without evoking quantum physics?
A recently solved murder case from the Netherlands illuminates some of the promises and ethical questions raised by the police practice of using genealogy databases to identify criminal suspects.
Nietzsche had some harsh things to say about the worldview of the masses, but what did he really think?
President Trump has placed retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.’s closest allies. His justification for this policy is national security and the protection of America’s businesses. But history has shown us that trade wars don’t put America first.
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Ayn Rand champions self-sufficiency, attacks altruism, demonizes public servants, and vilifies government regulations because they hinder individual freedom.
Google Chrome boasts 310 million active users across the world, and it might just kill off the usage of passwords.
Who are the new black atheists and what is behind their recent growth?
Gender is burdened by a lot of adjectives these days. It’s non-binary, it’s fluid, it’s ‘over’. According to the American rapper Young Thug, an artist at the helm of hip-hop […]
The persistent dream of a “gay utopia” is one of the constants in gay and lesbian historical imaginings over the last 200 years. But is it real?
The political and economic ideas of socialism are coming back into fashion.
You know how bright the full Moon is. Well, from the Moon, how would the ‘full Earth’ compare? “I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted […]
Wilt Chamberlain dominated basketball. Yet given the chance to improve one critical element of his game, he let popular opinion override physics.
And the story of how the greatest act of WWII sabotage stopped it. “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer In the 1930s, as Europe stood on […]
Good versus Evil will always be the stock and trade of storytelling, especially in comic books. The skill of separating good guys from bad comes early to readers, with the […]
The idea of forgery resonates more than ever today in a culture in which "the open exchange of ideas has been rebranded as piracy."
Just as there were many countries — India, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, to name a few — not mentioned in the “foreign policy” presidential debate last week, perhaps the greatest challenge facing […]