Culture
The first time you read anything by Tolkien, it's like listening to English and Finish mixed together. I understood about half of what he was saying. If you've seen the Lord of the Rings movies, try starting with the last chapter of The Silmarillion, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age.
Mind
You might wonder, at some point today, what’s going on in another person’s mind. You may compliment someone’s great mind, or say they are out of their mind. You may even try to expand or free your own mind.
Mind
About two-thirds of people have experienced déjà vu in their lifetimes, but for something that's such a common experience, the phenomenon is still shrouded in mystery.
Health
It may soon be possible to diagnose people with aphantasia, the inability to picture images in their head, using a simple test.
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Life
How did our sight evolve to the point where we can see a wide range of colors that other mammals cannot?
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Myth
As figments of the imagination, the alien, creepy-crawly, fanged, winged and otherwise-terrifying creatures that populate myths have long helped societies define cultural boundaries and answer an age-old question: What counts as human, and what counts as monstrous?
Tech
I've bought and built several miners, but none have been this easy. Plug it in, set it up, and let it run.
Tech
The coronavirus is helping to erode the hype around artificial intelligence; data scientists get the axe and some ‘old-fashioned’ solutions work better.
Tech
In the past few years, people across the world have spent more time on video chat programs like Zoom and FaceTime than ever before. These applications mimic in-person encounters by allowing users to see the people they are communicating with.
Tech
Long Covid, with its constellation of symptoms, is proving a challenging moving target for researchers trying to conduct large studies of the syndrome.
Mind
How a society that is so good at creating knowledge can be so bad at applying it. Why don’t Americans trust the experts?
Motion
As far as we can tell, there's no limit to how far it goes on; only a limit to how far we can see. Could the Universe truly be infinite?