After our last go-round, Peter Hitchens has posted a further reply. I encourage you to read it in full before reading my response, which follows below: Once again, Peter Hitchens […]
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My previous post quoted Peter Hitchens, the conservative Christian brother of the late Christopher Hitchens, to criticize some of his views on divine command morality. To my surprise, it drew […]
Ethan Kross, psychologist and author of “Shift,” explains how negative emotions help us live safely and well.
It’s the ultimate setup for a Thanksgiving Day disaster. The physics of water and its solid, liquid, and gas phases compels us not to do it.
The Universe has been creating stars for nearly all 13.8 billion years of its history. But those photons can’t match the Big Bang’s light.
Until the Apollo missions, we had no idea how the moon got here, just a series of educated guesses. They rewrote the story of the moon’s origins.
Adrie Kusserow, an anthropologist and scholar of Buddhism, shares how her study of the religion and its history has reshaped her view of the world — and herself.
Rejecting romanticism, these famous paintings depict war as it really is: sadistic and senseless.
As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
What kind of object will you form? What will its fate be? How long will a star live? Almost everything is determined by mass alone.
In a state of “hyperwar,” accidents or unexpected AI decisions could lead to widespread devastation before humans could intervene.
Because there’s not enough Walden pond to go around.
When making any tough decision, the key is not to be overly exploratory or exploitative.
Searching for happiness in the midst of personal or societal crises are nothing new.
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Attending religious service once a week found to lower risk of suicide and other “deaths of despair”
In late April, the news hit us hard: Lorna Breen, an emergency room doctor in a Manhattan hospital flooded with coronavirus patients, committed suicide. According to her father, the emotional […]
A clean work space, plants, and putting on the right pants all make working from home easier, according to science.
Researchers at UCSF have trained an algorithm to parse meaning from neural activity.
Are you prone to “toxic accumulation”?
Schadenfreude has always been with us.
The story of that one time a U.S. city was run by a Soviet, and what it was like to live in it.
The widely beloved chef, writer and TV host Anthony Bourdain was found dead Friday morning at age 61. Here’s a brief look at the work and life that made him an international culinary star.
You think the collapse of the Soviet Union was chaotic? You should have seen the start.
Rumors of a terrorist gunman escalated at LAX. A panicked crowd trampled an old woman, snapping her femur. In our best Dick Cheney voice: “If you allow blind fear to disrupt society, the terrorists have already won.”
It took a 160-strong response team of paramedics, firefighters, and rescue workers to get the chaotic scene under control.
Almost a century after its dissolution, two hilarious anecdotes are the Free State’s main legacy.
What the world’s most powerful collider found, and may yet still find. “Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.” –Tom Freston […]
Psychologists and behavioral therapists have begun integrating cooking into their treatment strategies, extending the benefits of meal preparation far beyond satisfying hunger.