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“Carpe diem” was only one part of Horace’s poem Odes 1.11.

How can you fit a camel through a needle?

With U.S. infrastructure crumbling, an honor oath and iron ring remind engineers of their profession’s ethical weight.

Inequality should be measured in terms of the time it takes for us to earn the money to buy the things we need. And everyone is getting wealthier.

Planet Earth has been around for over 4.5 billion years, but humans? For 99.998% of our planet’s history, humans were nowhere to be found.

One bill hopes to repeal the crime of selling sex and expand social services; the other would legalize the entire sex trade.

Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.

Some Americans are fearful of government control and awash in conspiracy theories.

‘The Broad and Narrow Way’ helped 19th-century preachers explain the consequences of virtue and vice.

On the first episode of The Portal, Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel discuss the future of education.

Apollo 11’s moon landing inspired many to reach for the impossible.

Trump is #45 but Pence is #48 – and other strange consequences of the curious office of vice president.

Maps show the oldest company in (nearly) every country – and a few interesting corporate trends.

The cosmic story of us wasn’t inevitable, but the culmination of many chance events. By the time our planet was four billion years old, the rise of large plants and animals […]

Despite itself, this collection of awful cartography may just make a few useful observations.

It’s the first time humans have landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon.

Carl Sagan liked to smoke weed. His essay on why is fascinating.

“To promote the development of a commercial asteroid resources industry for outer space in the United States and to increase the exploration and utilization of asteroid resources in outer space.”

U.S. Supreme Court justices receive lifetime appointments to the bench, but many wonder if indefinite terms do more harm to our legal system than good.

While today profuse sweating is a social embarrassment, in the past it gave us an evolutionary advantage.

Some good ones this week. Did you make the cut? 

Bottoms ups! A Southern Calfornia brewery is taking its beer from toilet to tap. San Diego’s Stone Brewing has started making Full Circle Pale Ale using treated sewage water and recently held a tasting. While Bill Gates has shown that drinking “poop water” is perfectly fine, will consumers chug down this beer?   

Do border walls keep countries safer, or merely project the illusion of safety?  

H.R. 1150 expressly protects non-theists from religious persecution around the world. 

As president, Donald Trump is uniquely positioned to bring America back to the Moon.

You are already a cyborg! Here’s 10 ways you could merge even more with technology in the coming decade.

Edward Snowden and his allies are lobbying President Obama to pardon him.

Monty Python’s Terry Jones argues that economics isn’t a science—it’s history!  Forgetting that history inevitably dooms us to the next financial crisis.

Not everyone has the opportunity to ride a bike to work or school, but those who do would improve their health and save quite a bit of money.

Test your legal acumen. Pencils ready!