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No. No no no. Just… no. The JWST has truly blown our scientific minds, but it’s a pure crackpot idea that the Big Bang is now disproven.
There’s never been a better cultural moment to capitalize on microlearning.
It’s perhaps never been harder to resist the urge to overspend.
The road to intelligent life is a series of hard steps.
The Universe isn’t as “clumpy” as we think it should be.
Math can explain why your laces spontaneously come untied — and how to stop it.
In a 2018 article, Gallup writer Ryan Pendell shared some frightening figures for business leaders. Public poll data showed that only a quarter of employees believed their leaders had a […]
Now that the DSM lists severe hoarding as a disorder apart from OCD, psychologists are asking what explains its prevalence.
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In an attempt to prove Christianity inferior to communism, a Soviet scientist hoped to play God.
The danger posed by conversational AI isn’t that it can say weird or dark things; it’s personalized manipulation for nefarious purposes.
As we gain new knowledge, our scientific picture of how the Universe works must evolve. This is a feature of the Big Bang, not a bug.
It’s better to pursue moral actions instead of the ephemeral state of happiness, according to the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.
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Huge shifts in the workforce demand real-world changes in management practices; “command-and-control” no longer cuts it.
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How much can something change and still be the same thing?
Despite the Sun’s high core temperatures, particles can’t quite overcome their mutual electric repulsion. Good thing for quantum physics!
What makes something a hit or a flop? Sit and ponder that one, and you’ll find it’s a stumper. At first, the answer seems obvious: popularity. That’s not quite right […]
Understand everything that goes behind payroll, debits, credits, and more with this 25-hour course collection.
The familiar terrain of solids, liquids, and gases gives way to the exotic realms of plasmas and degenerate matter.
There are two methods to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. The results do not agree with each other, and this is a big problem.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge” is often taken to mean that your conceptions outweigh what’s real. That’s not what he said.
In Sun-like stars, hydrogen gets fused into helium. In the Big Bang, hydrogen fusion also makes helium. But they aren’t close to the same.
It’s possible to measure philosophy’s progress in two ways. But is that really the point?
Among history’s many thought leaders, Plato may sport the most impressive resume of the bunch. The Athenian philosopher founded the Academy. His Dialogues are required reading at every institution of […]
Most people care what others think of them. In many situations, that can be leveraged for the common good.