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Recent research shows that suicidal behavior is a social contagion that spreads through families and classrooms. The good news? So does suicide prevention.

Why might America’s respect for its military be a mile wide but less than an inch thick? Less than one half of one percent of its population serves, making civilians more cavalier about deployment.

It’s somewhat of a given that over the course of your life, you’ll lose your hearing to some degree. But that doesn’t necessarily have to be the case.

Everyone thinks they know how to make their brain more creative and have better ideas.

Religion as a belief system goes back hundreds of thousands of years. So why are so many of the religious peoples of today so focused on a supposed God that goes back only 5,000 years? The answer lies in how our brains work.

Two-thirds of the achievement gap for American children is due to the “summer learning loss”. Here’s how we fix that.

And thanks to Alvin Plantinga, they have a rational conversation.

Religion influences politics more now than it did 50 years ago. Are we going forward or backward?

The big, unknowable questions in life are seductive, but without small, trivial questions as insulation, those large mysteries can consume us.

When it comes to ISIS, terrorism, and global and domestic instability, America has been its own worst enemy.

Raising money for charity is one thing. Knowing where to give it is another. When some charities are 100 times more effective than others, a world champion poker player knows how to spot who’s bluffing.

If you want to feel less pain, meditate more often. According to this new research, it can genuinely erase the emotional reaction to pain. And since it’s long been said by coaches and some doctors that most pain is within the mind, here’s scientific proof to back that assertion up.

One prominent mathematician asks: was Einstein such a smartypants after all?

Want to live in an energy efficient masterpiece? This startup has turned a costly overhaul into an opportunity for investors.

What are you capable of? David Goggins’ amazing and grueling feat of persistence shows how tough the human mind can be.

In an age of bountiful data, there’s dark potential for how corporations and judicial systems could use private details to discriminate against innocent people.

Living in the moment is an exception, not the rule. So why do we invest so much energy into a future we can’t predict, control, or anticipate? It turns out our happiness may depend on it.

You mad, bro? The way that Facebook (and Twitter) manipulates your brain should be the very thing that outrages us the most.

Are you scared—of flying, the dark, anything? Or are you scared about not being in total control of the situation?

Getting rid of the President is a popular subject these days. And Sunstein’s advice on the subject can show us the protocol — and the history — behind firing the most powerful man in the free world.

After fleeing the LRA in her native Uganda, Igoye came the University of Minnesota. There she began finding resources to combat the scourge of human trafficking.

There’s no debating evolution, but there remains a debate among biologists over how it works. Is evolution deterministic in that its outcomes could not have been otherwise, or is it more random?

Is providing healthcare for all too expensive, or is it a failure of our moral imagination to say so? What first appears as an economic reality can too quickly become an excuse for inaction.

Millennials are criticized for not working hard and wanting a participation trophy. Bryan Cranston doesn’t buy it. He thinks they have valuable lessons to teach older generations, if they can listen.

The controversial author predicted the rise of Trump by placing “a ruthlessly ambitious, narcissistic, media-savvy villain sporting makeup and coloured hair” in his new book, written before the election. But can he explain the hate of knowledge that persists in the world today?

Artificial Intelligence is already outsmarting us at ’80s computer games by finding ways to beat games that developers didn’t even know were there. Just wait until it figures out how to beat us in ways that matter.

Do you really need a lot of stuff to be happy? Science says that the opposite is true.

Cosmic collision yields bullion by the billions.

Concepts like hope, faith, and love have no material reality—save perhaps for neurons firing in the brain—yet they are the cornerstones of human well being.

Friendly neighbors and wide oceans. That, in a phrase, is America’s security plan. North Korea? Simply not a threat, says foreign policy expert Michael Desch.