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"One of the largest mitigating factors against getting traumatized is who is there for you at that particular time."
A researcher weighs in on who’s accountable, when and why, in the eyes of the law — and whether the measures work as intended.
According to bushido, your life is of secondary importance to key virtues, like honor, loyalty, and justice.
For the clarity of a “beginner’s mind” and a path to true and lasting wisdom, one must fully embrace "not-knowing."
A marine scientist explains the threat of the Loop Current, a 800-pound gorilla of Gulf hurricane risks.
The following is an excerpt from Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity by Arup K. Chakraborty and Andrey S. Shaw. Reprinted with Permission from The MIT PRESS. Copyright 2021. Koch’s Postulates, Anthrax, […]
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A fun and completely safe experiment for the family to try during quarantine.
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Practicing Socratic ignorance, or avoiding certainty of our own knowledge, diminishes inequality and pushes us in our search for wisdom.
Institute for Humane Studies
By not taking emergency action to combat climate change, we're gambling dangerously with the future.
It’s both accurate and slightly misleading to call the keto diet a “fad diet”. On the one hand, the keto diet has in recent years become a fad, taking over a […]
Etgar Keret's stories are as funny, painful, and surreal as life itself. We talk about the craziness of his native Israel, his new collection of short stories FLY ALREADY, marijuana, dementia, and much more.
Even the best science imaginable has its limits. In terms of ambition, it’s hard to ask for more than to know absolutely everything there is to know about the Universe. That’s […]
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Should all speech be free? How much intolerance should society tolerate?
Institute for Humane Studies
Key performance indicators, KPIs, are not new: It’s said that way back in the third century, China’s Wei dynasty began using them to rate the behavior of members of the […]