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“What you pay attention to, is your life.” Where do you place precious brain resources?
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Do humans have souls, or are we just particles? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains.
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We’re afraid to talk about money–and that costs us.
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“There’s a sense of crisis today that we did not have in the 1980’s or 90’s” — economist Tyler Cowen on progress in America.
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How to defeat debaters who deal in distractions, according to a two-time world debate champion.
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Is it better to be rational or optimistic? Steven Pinker explains.
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Male inequality — the enormous cultural shift happening right under our nose.
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Why do so many cultures celebrate holidays at the same time of year?
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How did complex systems emerge from chaos? Physicist Sean Carroll explains.
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Deep secrets don’t explode. They do something worse, explains Michael Slepian.
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In 1965, six boys were stranded on an island. Fifteen months later, the survivors were rescued. How many were there?
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Climate change. War. Civil unrest. Is it responsible to have kids today?
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Our society is in a mental health crisis. Are psychedelics the way out?
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If your inner voice is cruel, try these steps to reclaim your mind.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Universe, explained by physicist Sean Carroll.
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Our impulse to seek out agreement is stifling us, says world debate champion Bo Seo.
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What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here’s what it taught him.
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Think via Bayes’ rule to become more rational and less brainwashed.
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What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That old adage roughly sums up the idea of antifragility, a term coined by the statistician and writer Nassim Taleb. The term refers […]
What do physicists actually mean when they talk about the multiverse?
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Can psychedelics solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? A Johns Hopkins professor explains.
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Pessimism sounds smart. Optimism sounds dumb. Don’t fall for it, says Wired’s Kevin Kelly.
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Collective illusions — false assumptions about society that many people share — have existed for thousands of years in many different ways. Today, because of social media and modern technology, […]
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The real risks of psychedelics, explained by a Johns Hopkins expert.
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This scientist collected thousands of secrets. They all had 3 things in common.
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We don’t need one Elon Musk. We need 8 billion empathic futurists.
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Bo Seo, Harvard’s former debate coach, explains a good argument.
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Stress shrinks your brain. Neuroscientist Lisa Genova explains how to strengthen it.
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A psychiatrist studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.
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Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman debunks the ‘10,000 steps per day’ myth.
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