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Do our thoughts have any meaning whatsoever?
Learning styles are supposed to help learners take ownership of their education, but research doesn’t back up this well-intentioned myth.
The James Webb Space Telescope could help scientists learn about the cosmic dark ages and how they ended.
Science cannot help us understand or describe first-person experience. Zen koans are a powerful form for helping us reach that description.
Millions of Americans are quitting their jobs, but even if you can’t join the Great Resignation, you can still pursue a do-over moment.
Psychopathic tendencies may be present to some extent in all of us. New research is reframing this often sensationalized and maligned set of traits and finding some positive twists.
Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.
Dive into China’s profound intellectual legacy through five seminal texts that have shaped millennia of thought.
It has perhaps never been easier to feel as if you’ve fallen behind in life. From the anxieties of comparing yourself to others online to our fetishization of success, it […]
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2023 will see an “arms race” in mixed reality hardware and software. This truly will revolutionize our society.
Next year is the perfect time to have better conversations!
Within the “Dark Triad” of personality traits, narcissism exists on a confidence spectrum.
If you think you know what sex, gender, and “the right thing to do” for trans youth and adults are, be sure it agrees with actual science.
A few key moments are linked to significant shifts in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
How are we to deal with the quantization of spacetime and gravity?
The cycles of life all rely on the dynamism of the Earth’s crust.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
Successful constructive criticism is as much about mindset as methods.
Implicit bias may be outside your conscious control, but that doesn’t mean change is.
In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, there were only free protons and neutrons: no atomic nuclei. How did the first elements form from them?
The length of a day oscillates slightly every six years. This was a surprising discovery made last decade. We might now know why.
From “shell shock” to “combat fatigue,” the wars of the past century have violently illuminated the power trauma can wield over the mind and body.
Quantum uncertainty and wave-particle duality are big features of quantum physics. But without Pauli’s rule, our Universe wouldn’t exist.
We asked our experts where they see the biggest blockers right now for more progress. Essentially, from their various areas of focus, what did they see as the largest impediments to driving progress forward around the world and how they would prioritize the necessary interventions? The answers were appropriately varied from the philosophical to the political to the technological.
A conservator from the Rijksmuseum explains how they went about investigating whether the painting is a genuine Rembrandt.
Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
Alzheimer’s disease is frightening, but the right combination of lifestyle choices can reduce your risk.
There are many things in life that cannot be improved with greater effort. Sometimes, life requires that you step back.
The U.S. economy is creating thousands of new jobs each month–and overwhelmingly, most of them go to people with education beyond high school.
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