A new model of the Antikythera mechanism reveals a "creation of genius."
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Daydreaming can be a pleasant pastime, but people who suffer from maladaptive daydreaming are trapped by their fantasies.
Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.
Creative people are better able to engage brain systems that don’t typically work together.
The great philosopher spent the final portion of his painful life in a vegetative state. Did illness get him there, or was it his own philosophy?
Studio Ghibli movies celebrate the natural world using a very Japanese mixture of Shinto, Buddhist, and Daoist themes.
Even without the greatest individual scientist of all, every one of his great scientific advances would still have occurred. Eventually.
Delay the instant gratification of online knowledge and first seek out the wisdom within yourself.
Elon Musk suggested remote-controlled, vibrating anal beads. Thankfully, there are more mundane explanations.
According to literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, Dostoevsky's talents were on par with those of William Shakespeare.
"Salvator Mundi" sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?
Soviet censorship was thorough yet fallible.
Labeling thinkers like Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs as "other" may be stifling humanity's creative potential.
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From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here's a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.
Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.
Despite being called the "dismal science," economics impacts our lives every day. Here, we look at seven of the greatest economists in history.
Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.
Unless you confront your theory with what's actually out there in the Universe, you're playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.
Will and Ariel Durant were praised for their ability to look at the big picture without losing sight of its little details, even if they did miss some of them.
Like some cold poison creeping up our veins, there's a frisson in the stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe.
This world map shows how the rest of the world LOLs. In France, you MDR; in China, you 23333.
Da Vinci dreamed up a helicopter 400 years before they actually existed. Now, engineers have brought his design to life, but with a twist.
"Time Warp" all the way back to 1800s spiritualism, magic performances, and spook shows.
Late-night shows, developed during the "golden age" of TV, are no longer as relevant in the age of streaming services and Donald Trump.
The author of Frankenstein had an obsession with the cemetery and saw love and death as connected.
Some intellectuals use charisma and deception to obscure the holes in their arguments. Here is how to see through their smokescreen.
As important as his Nobel Prize-winning technical accomplishments was his ability to communicate to the public.
Michael Faraday's 1834 law of induction was the key experiment behind the eventual discovery of relativity. Einstein admitted it himself.
Talking to yourself seems to yield real benefits, from boosts in cognitive performance to improved emotional regulation.