The Present

What’s the difference between making it and faking it? Getting it done, no matter what.

What would it be like to live in the body of someone else? With VR, now you can actually find out.

By being someone else, and seeing and discovering the world through the eyes of other people, that can only increase our empathy… and decrease our own egocentric view of the world.

Yanny/Laurel is the blue dress vs. gold dress of 2018. Kinda.

Being real at the office? Some workplaces would frown at the idea, but Amway embraces it (and is all the better for it).

Crowdsourcing as an idea isn’t anything new, says historian and sex researcher Alice Dreger. She tells us about the history of public gathering of information from the medieval era to today.

The reason has to do with how the wind was blowing in a particular part of the world in August of 1588. It’s that specific.

NASA is developing something called an X-Plane that could potentially bring back supersonic speeds to the skies.

No, really. This stuff is getting pushed out as “fact.”

What is liberal America’s big, and possibly fatal, mistake? Failing to recognize its own extremists.

Geobiologist Hope Jahren explains why knowing your legal protections is probably more useful than attending another behavioral seminar on avoiding harassment.

Should kids be on social media? If yes, what are some good rules to have?

The ability to say what we want, when we want, is an important part of American democracy.

It’s no secret that American income inequality is at its worst point since the gilded age. So how do we stop this rampant inequality?

Yale professor Amy Chua on the identity of nations, why hardened tribes end up in civil wars, and why you can’t just replace dictators with democracy.

In collaboration with the Clinton Global Initiative University

Having a goal to change the world for the better is great. But what’s more important, says Chelsea Clinton, is having a plan to make it happen.

Events, entertainment, and transportation are literally being transformed during this year’s Olympics.

A transgender woman was able to breastfeed her baby after completing an experimental treatment regimen, but it’s still not clear what the effects of the breastmilk might have on the child.    

Scientists are supposed to reach their conclusions after doing research and weighing the evidence but, in economics, conclusions can come first, with economists supporting a thesis that fits their moral worldview.  

In Australia, the idea of a universal basic income has floated in and out of our political arena for years, but remains only that, an idea.  

For the first time in Facebook’s history, the number of daily active users in the U.S. dropped—by about 700,000.

We’ve got the biggest comments. The best comments. You’re going to have such good comments that you’re going to be sick of how good these comments are. Believe me. 

The world’s largest e-commerce company has proposed some really interesting upgrades.

SpaceX made history Tuesday after successfully launching its Falcon Heavy rocket into space, but not all are convinced any of that actually happened.

What history can teach us about refugees. 

South Korean officials say with confidence that this will be the safest Olympics on record.

Is it better to have the harm of 100 sexual assaults than the harm of one false conviction?

“Sports is war minus the shooting,” said George Orwell. So far, however, a thawing of tensions between North Korea and South Korea has been the big political story of the 2018 Olympic Games.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is encouraging aerospace companies to up their game after successfully launching the most powerful rocket since NASA’s Saturn V.