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ANGRY MUCH?
How To Tell If You’re A Jerk
If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.
SCIENCE IS PRETTY
The Best Science Images Of The Year
Storms, stars and other beautiful snaps.
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Online Privacy Has Never Felt More At Risk
A VPN from Private Internet Access is the easiest way to secure your browser history and online identity. If 2016 has taught us anything, hopefully it's to be a smarter, safer internet user.
COME BACK YESTERDAY
Why Doesn't Time Flow Backwards?
Physicist Sean Carroll talks about one of the deepest mysteries of time.
DO YOU KNOW KNOWLEDGE?
This Simple Philosophical Puzzle Shows How Difficult It Is To Know Something
The unassuming vignettes in the Gettier problem point to a much bigger issue
HANS ON EDUCATOR
Three Minutes With Hans Rosling Will Change Your Mind About The World
This physician and epidemiologist has influenced leaders from Melinda Gates to Fidel Castro. Now, he is on a new mission.
OUCH!
The Science Of Laser Hair Removal, In Slow Motion
Lasers use hair to kill hair.
WILL THE BIG APPLE FLOAT
How To Save New York City From Rising Seas
Will a $3 billion wall keep lower Manhattan above water?
IN THE HEAT OF BATTLE
Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food
The neuropsychological link between the chili pepper and risk-taking
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Your Gut Is A Second Brain
What if how you think and feel isn’t controlled just by your brain and central nervous system?
A STIFF DECISION
The Case For Freezing Your Body And Waiting For Resuscitation
You probably think cryonics are nonsense. Here’s why you might be wrong.
UNFRIENDSHIPS
How A Mental Disorder Gives Us A Unique Insight Into The Facebook Age
Capgras Syndrome distorts the relationship between recognition and familiarity. So does social media.
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INVISIBLE OR ABSENT?
The Case Against Dark Matter
A proposed theory of gravity does away with dark matter, even as new astrophysical findings challenge the need for galaxies full of the invisible mystery particles.
THERE'S NO APP FOR THAT
Empathy And Connection In The Age Of The Smartphone
Is new communication technology degrading the quality of human relationships?
FROM THE DIGG STORE
The JetJat Ultra Nano Drone
This one-touch takeoff drone offers super-smooth flights for all pilots, no matter how much of a newb you are.
WE'RE HANGING OUT LATER
Yes, Trees Have A Social Life
A forester makes the case that trees are sentient, feeling beings
WHO SAYS SCIENCE DOESN’T PAY
These Professors Make More Than a Thousand Bucks An Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers
The economists are leveraging their academic prestige with secret reports justifying corporate concentration. Their predictions are often wrong and consumers pay the price.
MEAT+CELLPHONE = HUMAN
An Illustrated Guide To Math
Don’t worry, you will learn no actual mathematics
WOULD YOU MOVE BACK?
Fukushima Five Years Later
The Japanese Prime Minister has announced plans to clean up Fukushima, the site of a massive 2011 nuclear disaster, and move former residents back by spring 2017. But not everyone wants to go back.
COLLECTIVE WISDOM 2.0
This Simple Trick Is Sharpening The Hive Mind
Start by realizing that some people’s judgments deserve more weight than others.
NIGHTMARES ARE CLASSIFIED
This Is What It’s Like To Be A Psychiatrist At Guantanamo
Doing medicine under secrecy, mistrust and the shadow of interrogation limited doctors’ ability to treat mental illness.
SPECTRUM OF LIES
Why Parents Try Fringe Therapies For Autism
How should parents navigate the seemingly endless array of diets, supplements, high-tech therapies and other options?
FELL FAR FROM THE TREE
Humans Are Still Evolving — And We Can Watch It Happen
Large genomic databases are allowing researchers to see our traits evolve.
DON'T LOOK DOWN
The Strange Brain Of The World’s Greatest Solo Climber
An MRI examination of Alex Honnold’s brain shows an unusual lack of fear response.
PHYSICS IN FULL COLOR
This Is What Got The Head Of The Institute For Advanced Study Into Physics
An animated short takes us into physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf’s childhood wonders.
SEX ISN'T SELLING
Why Millennials Aren’t Having Sex
Younger millennials — born in the 1990s — are more than twice as likely to be sexually inactive in their early 20s as the previous generation was.
A BITTER PILL
I Told My Doctors My Drug History. Yet They Gave Me Opioids Without Counseling
An epidemic of painkiller addictions isn’t always given the attention it deserves by hospitals and doctors.
THEORETICAL COOKING
A Unified Theory Of Deliciousness From The Owner Of The Momofuku Noodle Bar
The secret code to unleashing the world’s most amazing flavors has a lot to do with paradox.
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BURIED DANGER
Carbon Emissions From Soil Might Equal All Us Emissions
New work suggests that global warming will drive more carbon from soil by mid-century than all projected emissions from human-related activities.
TIMING IS EVERYTHING
How Long Should You Wait To Text Her Back?
Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg on the science of waiting in modern courtship.
UNDER OUR NOSES
Is Physical Law An Alien Intelligence?
Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from physics.
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