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According to the legendary investor, the best method is a blueprint for "extreme success.”
What do guns, roses, and Guns N' Roses have in common? They're all awesome. And all of them are in our weekly random fact roundup.
"The Man in the High Castle" may be the most beloved alternate history book, but it is not the most historically accurate.
Some scientists feel that the attacks on U.S. embassy workers in Cuba and China were carried out by secret microwave weapons. Others think that’s just silly.
Before becoming America’s most infamous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was a magnetic actor who was beloved by audiences and courted by critics.
In his new book, the popular science writer tells the story of how scientists discovered the “gaseous ocean” we all swim in — and the trillions of invisible life forms we share it with.
These books helped build the empirical case that life's origins differ from those described in myths and legends.
An extraordinary haberdasher obsessed with buttons, lace collars, and death pioneered modern statistical analysis during the Age of Reason.
Are breakthroughs really a matter of chance, or are they simply waiting to be uncovered by the right person at the right time?
Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.
Although human beings arrived on Earth just ~300,000 years ago, we've transformed the entire planet completely. Here's how we did it.
In logic, 'reductio ad absurdum' shows how flawed arguments fall apart. Our absurd Universe, however, often defies our intuitive reasoning.
Or are cults the religions we find distasteful?
Uncovering the story of Milan Hausner, the Sadská clinic, and LSD psychotherapy behind the Iron Curtain.
On December 9, 2023, Halley's Comet reached aphelion: its farthest point from the Sun. As it returns, here are 10 facts you should know.
"Time Warp" all the way back to 1800s spiritualism, magic performances, and spook shows.
Carnivorous plants fascinate as much now as when their gruesome diet was first discovered.
In the beginning, genes weren't needed.
John Templeton Foundation
Lots of people have seen lots of bizarre events and phenomena that defy our conventional experience. But is there a scientific explanation?
Billions of years ago, the ever-increasing entropy must've been much lower: the past hypothesis. Here's how cosmic inflation solves it.
Our inaugural special issue is focused on progress — the search for, the study of, and the project towards a better world.
If our goal is to effect the greatest possible progress, what would it look like to approach this holistically? What might need to dispositionaly in how we approach solving our most important problems—at an individual level, a community level, or at a civilizational or global one? We asked our experts to think big picture about how what new thinking would be required to create a larger pro-progress framework.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher who praised a simple life and inspired the worst of the French Revolution.
There are dozens of instructional design models, but most learning designers rely on a select few. Here are four of the most common.
Mutations that confer malaria resistance occur more frequently in people who live in regions where the disease is endemic.
Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.
If you want to understand what the Universe is, how it began, evolved, and will eventually end, astrophysics is the only way to go.