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In the summer of 1969, America did the extraordinary. Let’s do it again.

Methane gases from livestock production is contributing to the acceleration of global warming. Is a plant-based diet a smart way for individuals to curb the effects of climate change?

Even our most imaginative expectations of AI are only primitive — but as neuroscience understands the brain more deeply, it will unlock the full potential of hybrid intelligence.

The advent of portable technology has exploited our reptilian addiction switch like never before.

For once, beer is going to clarify your understanding. Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss lays down the empirical evidence for the mechanics of the Big Bang.

Scientology is the true religion of America’s capitalist soul. “To me,” says Louis Theroux, “Scientology is selling spiritual hamburgers.”

For our future’s sake, let’s demand government funding for ‘little science’, says Hertz fellow Avideh Zakhor.

For the last two years the volume has risen on populist voices, culminating in a victory for President Trump. The day after his election, this is how “rude” New Yorkers treated one Muslim-American woman.

If you cloned yourself perfectly, would the clone have the same mind? At the heart of this question is an investigation into what – and where – consciousness is.

Political correctness can go the f*ck to sleep, says Adam Mansbach. The term has been co-opted by so many social factions that it’s more of a hindrance to the cause of respect than a help.

If you’re not doing relational thinking, you’re not really thinking, says psychotherapist Esther Perel. Understanding how complementarity between people and partners works is critical to success.

1.5 million children die each year from preventable diseases arising from poor sanitation systems. That’s why some of the world’s top scientists are working to make a 21st-century toilet without links to water, energy, or sewer lines, and which costs users under $0.05 a day.

So you think you’re “not a math person”? International Mathematical Olympiad coach Po-Shen Loh strongly disagrees.

Yale psychologist Paul Bloom has views on empathy, emotion, and rationality that make him a black sheep among his peers.

The ‘Project Wing’ drone system is going to change life as we know it—and inadvertently fix all your storage problems. rn

Ding-ding! Here’s round two of the viral Bill Nye vs. Tucker Carlson Fox News debate. The Science Guy replies, without interruptions, and makes Tucker Carlson an offer.

Are we alone in the universe? NASA’s exploration of TRAPPIST-1 has the potential to answer one of humanity’s deepest questions.

Limiting speech doesn’t change the nature of hate, says Josh Lieb. Thoughts can be hateful and stupid—but should they be criminal?rn

85% of the electricity used in the world is generated by expensive, large, and inefficient steam turbines. Modern Electron plans to change that, producing efficient, cheap energy for all—using fossil fuels.

People in the East and West really do think differently, especially when it comes to self-identity. Depending where you live, it’s either associative or distinctive thinking that shapes your sense of self.

How do you build a podcast empire? Scott Aukerman explains the pedantic, unglamorous, behind-the-scenes work that went into founding the brilliant Earwolf Podcast Network.

If gay people could unite America enough to win the right to marry, surely an entire society can borrow from that playbook to get the US back on track.

As its CEO, Bill Nye lays out the missions The Planetary Society would like to see NASA focus on over the next 20 years. NASA by nature goes where the future is, and Nye can’t help but think of another industry that should follow suit.

Altered states of consciousness are documented across cultures, from shamans to Silicon Valley coders. As different as these experiences seem, there are four neurological features they all have in common.

Americans understands very well what feels wrong – and there’s a piece of U.S. economic policy that the establishment and educated elites haven’t been fully honest about, says Pia Malaney.rn

Where is your mind? Professor Daniel Siegel answers this question with a more revolutionary one: Where isn’t your mind?

Director Ezra Edelman just won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for ‘O.J. Simpson: Made in America’. By deconstructing one scene, he gives insight into how truth and art must co-exist in documentary filmmaking.

Human minds are all powered by the same organ, so why do we have such strong preferences and diverse favorite things? Bill Nye lets us in on an example from his life.

What happens up there directly affects life down here. From star-gazing to quantum mechanics, astronomy is one of humanity’s great thruster engines of innovation.

There’s a new verb in town: cognify. We have far too much baggage with the word ‘intelligence’ so to fully embrace the second industrial revolution we need to start talking about artificial cognification.