The Present

What’s the secret language of depression? 

Have you been feeling like democracy is in trouble lately? According to this report, you’re right. 

Bret Weinstein says that we’re at the end of a massive technological and geographic boom, and that we should prepare for the next step in our societal evolution. Yet the future may not be optimistic for all. A cultural backlash to change, he says, is inevitable.

Pictures of the secretive and extremely high-powered weapon have appeared on Chinese social media. 

A new technology hopes to provide customers with “human surrogates” who strap screens to their faces so they can interact with the world on customers’ behalf. 

There’s grave concern over one particularly vulnerable group in the city.

Hasbro is releasing a Cheaters Edition Monopoly that encourages players to get ahead in any way they can.

The three behemoth companies are teaming up to disrupt the U.S. health care industry, a move that spooked the markets on the morning of the announcement.

Why is it that people say Ayn Rand isn’t a “real” philosopher? 

As an added bonus, these tiny building blocks could even be used to split water, creating a clean-burning and near infinite source of energy. 

Might a simple card game have a giant positive effect on a child? Professional poker player Liv Boeree thinks so.

Few know about the trillion dollar crime that stole pay raises while weakening our economy. The “lootocrats” and their courtiers are taking us for a ride.

“Anarchy” is often used as a synonym for chaos. Does the historical record match up with that? 

Get ready for images projected in mid-air to start appearing in the next few years. 

President Donald Trump veered away from his typical protectionist rhetoric at the World Economic Forum in his remarks on the benefits of global cooperation.

When we are asked to check a sex-identity box on a bureaucratic form, what definition of sex is being invoked and to what end? 

Pope Francis’ 2018 World Communications Day message explains the dangers of fake news and what journalists and the public must do to combat it.

According to science, you can control about 40% of your happiness.

An hour away from Area 51 in the Nevada desert, this solar power plant “banks” energy in a way that could be replicated across the world. 

Get out of the way expensive facial creams and treatments.

Does money, even when borrowed, make us happier – or does the state of owing money add to our dissatisfaction and stress?

Magical thinking has always run deep in America, but in the last 30 years things have begun to escalate. “Nutty fringe ideas” are making their way into the mainstream.

Here’s the psychology that explains why many economists prefer to be narrowly right yet broadly wrong (they suffer from professional “rigor distortis”).

You are not your government. An Iraqi is not theirs. Is it time to retune your perspective?

Every third American reports that he or she has experienced it.

A new study highlights how blockchain technology can be a game-changer in education.

Comprehensive new study of economic history paints a frightening future.

Girl babies may have one distinct advantage over boy babies. But what is it?

The social media behemoth wants you to use their platform less, not more, than before. 

Bitcoin started at $.008, and today is worth over $12,000. What’s the deal with other cryptocurrencies? We’re here to help.