Philosophers like to present their works as if everything before it was wrong. Sometimes, they even say they have ended the need for more philosophy. So, what happens when somebody realizes they were mistaken?
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Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Lexicographer Kory Stamper on the slipperiness of language and how the sausage of dictionaries is made.
You have to be a little envious of those who have faith—they have a motivational force behind them that is near impossible to beat. What if there was a secular equivalent, wonders philosophy professor Sam Newlands.
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Some experts take issue with Elon Musk’s frightening warning about AI taking over.
Get ready for images projected in mid-air to start appearing in the next few years.
Really puts the whole “don’t give up until you’re dead” thing to shame.
Stars don’t stay the same throughout their life, and the Sun is no exception. Here’s what’s going on. Here on Earth, the ingredients for life to survive, thrive, evolve, and sustain […]
A new study investigates if pot smokers outperformed nonsmokers in creativity.
Once upon a time, hope meant confronting suffering, not avoiding it. Have overly sugary connotations about hope diminished its true grit?
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What’s the secret language of depression?
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Joyce Carol Oates on America, idealism, and the shackles we can and can’t shake off.
Infographics detailing the exporting of live animals from Africa, 2001-2015
Natural selection has left us with a world of optimists—is this healthy?
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If you want to know how we get something from nothing, you’d better understand what we mean! When we look around at our world and Universe today, we talk and think […]
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Social Psychologist Adam Alter on a planet-wide epidemic it’s not (yet) too late to bring under control.
A college degree is still a well-trodden path to relative financial success. Even so, a college degree is no longer a guarantee of a secure job, or of any job at all.
For many companies, particularly those in the tech and manufacturing sectors, innovation is the lifeblood of the company. Entire advocacy groups have been created with the basic goal of protecting […]
Racism is the acting out of biases learned as early as preschool, research shows. If racism starts at three years old, so should science-backed strategies to reduce it.
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Mark Twain once said that God created war so that Americans would learn geography. Twain died before World War I, but his sardonic remark still has meaning.
Cornel West talks about everyday poets, being the best of the human species, hope, what wokeness really means, and revolution.
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Representation matters. Meet five stellar women in physics who were unjustly denied their place in history. Nobel season is now over, with another year in the books of celebrating the scientists […]
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Philosopher of mind Daniel Dennett waxing wise and wicked on consciousness, dolphins, and more.
Before Hawking, black holes were just static points in the background of space. His greatest scientific legacy taught us just how dynamic they are. In 1915, Albert Einstein published his General […]
Scientists come up with an explanation for the strange dimming of Tabby’s star and it doesn’t involve aliens.
The 2018 World Happiness Index reveals some surprises and explains why the world’s richest country is not one of its happiest.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Turkish-American writer Elif Batuman on truth in fiction, how language shapes us, and more.
As more and more Millennials join the modern workforce, businesses are being faced with a new challenge: finding ways to integrate their young Millennial workers with their older, more experienced […]
You may have heard of a new kind of therapy from your more “new age” friends, “Sensory Deprivation Tanks”. While it sounds like a form of torture that might have […]
Emotional intelligence can have massive benefits for any organization, but why? How do we maximize our groups’ EQ?
Optimism may be quantifiably keeping marriages together, especially after the so-called honeymoon period ends.