Would your dog, cat, or other pet eat you if you died? The truth about if — and how soon — our animal friends start to see us in a different light.
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These may not be the only social predators that do.
It’s a fascinating idea, but how does it fare as a scientific theory? “Something is happening here and this is going to have an impact.” –Robert Dijkgraaf, on Verlinde’s work The […]
This isn’t an XZibit joke; it’s a real scientific question. And the answer may be that it’s possible after all. “People who work every day are kind of scared of things […]
Lots of colorful characters went looking for the Yeti. And there have been several hoaxes.
Facebook catches two AI chatbots talking in their own strange language.
“Space-time is not as static as it appears, it’s constantly moving,” one researcher said.
The philosopher could very well be in Mean Girls with this kind of theory.
A new study suggests that more anorexia and bulimia victims recover than was previously thought.
Researchers may have discovered the oldest homo sapiens yet, in Morocco.
Edward Luce’s new book is The Retreat of Western Liberalism, but let’s clarify its logic.
There’s a good chance that as you’re reading this you’re somewhat unconscious. Just how much is your brain not telling you? Neuroscientist Dean Buonomano peeks behind the curtain of your own brain.
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Science communication is about more than just “stating facts.” A lot more. “Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.” –Neil deGrasse […]
Rationality isn’t the rule, it’s rare. That’s true of the sort of optimizing rationality that economists presume we all have (even though many economists themselves fall short of that standard).
A new study correlates personality type with sleeping position, with infographics
The REV can collect and melt 5 tons of plastic a day.
The pharmaceutical industry excels at exploiting the free market by making recovery often inaccessible.
Go back to school, Agora style. Philosophy can train us to respond to life’s problems rather than merely react. One such training camp is coming to Baltimore.
Want to be hotter? Add more mass. Want to go even hotter than that? Lose almost all of it. “A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into […]
The study had some interesting findings for the adult children of separated parents who were civil.
Can robots tell stories? In a way, yes. We’re far more likely to see robot nursery rhymes than a robot Shakespeare.
In How Emotions Are Made psychology professor Lisa Fedlman Barrett considers the role of emotions in health.
Nutritional science has increasingly begun to discover that the optimal diet should be an individualized solution, determined by many factors.
Take a moment to stop rushing, and rebel against the cult of being too busy.
It does undergo nuclear fusion, but there are more reactions and more energy released from reactions other than H → He. “The sun is a miasmaOf incandescent plasmaThe sun’s not simply […]
Would you rather learn philosophy from James Franco or a professor of philosophy? Well, now you don’t have to choose.
John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, and Maya Angelou all had different approaches to writing. Here’s some of their best advice.
Though it looks promising, there are some issues to work out before it becomes widespread.
This season of Game of Thrones has been especially political, and episode 7 relates to the social and political climate of the U.S. like never before.