The Present

Physicist plans to karate-chop them with super-fast blasts of light.

That’s the strategy behind a program being tested in one Indiana school district.

The U.S. has a talent shortage and the formerly incarcerated have paid their debt to society. Let’s solve two problems with one idea.

IF your goal is to persuade people, that is.

In her new Netflix special, Amy Schumer gets real about fear.

Can 6,500 mercenaries “fix” Afghanistan? The U.S. is resurrecting privatized warfare.

Few students will become architects, but architecture may be able teach them more about real-life problem-solving than geometric proofs.

Harassment isn’t about your intention. It’s about your impact, explains Michael Kaufman.

Landlords aren’t the ones getting rich off of renting properties; slumlords are.

Some are worried this represents an Orwellian move. At heart, it’s not.

What gives us color now may give rise to our cyborg future.

Finland’s educational system was driven by a culture that supports a strong social contract, one the United States currently lacks.

Be a man? Why this once trusty advice now fails men.

While there’s plenty to be worried about, it’s important to remember that we’re making progress, too.

The 21st century is experiencing an Asianization of politics, business, and culture.

On Thursday, New Zealand moved to ban an array of semi-automatic guns and firearms components following a mass shooting that killed 50 people.

The Bill Gates-backed venture promises to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at a rate of under $100 per tonne.

Here’s why universal basic income will hurt the 99%, and make the 1% even richer.

Yes, a coup d’état.

“Here I want to remind all of you of a fact that the U.S. publicly defines outer space as a new battlefield,” a Chinese foreign minister said.

The Canadian professor has been on the Joe Rogan Experience six times. There’s a lot of material to discuss.

The researchers call it a “competence downshift.”

This is the first study to explore not only what percentage of people in the general population choose to watch videos of graphic real-life violence, but also why.

Victims are moral agents rather than moral patients.

America’s socialists owe a lot to one man, but what did he think about socialism?

In the face of seemingly unstoppable gun violence, Americans could stand to gain by looking to the Swiss.

At high tide each night, bright lights predict the underwater future.

The Kremlin has been eying China for a very long time.

Americans lost $116.9 billion gambling in 2016.

This is how data harvesting really works. You’re not going to like it.