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Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here’s why we don’t buy it.
“Theory of mind” enables all people to naturally infer other people’s mental states. Psychopaths don’t seem to put much effort into the process.
We are generally taught that there is an arc of history — an inevitable path of progress that leads to modern society. Maybe it isn’t true.
Ever since the start of the hot Big Bang, time ticks forward as the Universe expands. But could time ever run backward, instead?
Cross-disciplinary cooperation is needed to save civilization.
The value of art does not lie in the artwork itself but is instead determined by curators, collectors, critics, and other participants in the modern-day art market.
Humanity can avoid catastrophe — if we look beyond our blinkered present.
Wander into the deep recesses of the mind and never return the same with these existentialist books.
Can two planets stably share the same orbit? Conventional wisdom says no, but a look at Saturn’s moons might tell a different story.
The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
For every proton, there were over a billion others that annihilated away with an antimatter counterpart. So where did all that energy go?
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We are more likely to agree with someone who also agrees with us. Young children, though, only trust themselves. We have to learn to trust.
A Carrington-magnitude event would kill millions, and cause trillions of dollars in damage. Sadly, it isn’t even the worst-case scenario.
In a world where we assume people tell the truth, liars prosper. To stop them from exploiting others, here are three rules to catch a liar.
Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we’ll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.
But it’s still challenging to build a 22,000-mile elevator.
Jung thought these autonomous entities live in your unconscious mind — often at a cost.
Our Universe requires dark matter in order to make sense of things, astrophysically. Could massive photons do the trick?
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A cute mathematical trick can “rescale” the Universe so that it isn’t actually expanding. But can that “trick” survive all our cosmic tests?
Fifty years of research on children’s toy preferences shows that kids generally prefer toys oriented toward their own gender.
The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.
Personal finance advice is often over-simplified and fails to consider economic research or people’s unique circumstances.
An emerging field studies parasites that take over the nervous system of a host.
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We frequently say it’s 2.725 K: from the light left over all the way from the Big Bang. But that’s not all that’s in the Universe.
Each year in mid-August, Earth plows through the debris stream of an enormous comet, creating the Perseids. 2023’s show will be magnificent!
We know it couldn’t have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?