If you aren’t yet worried about the multitude of ways you inadvertently inflict suffering onto other living creatures, you will be after reading The Edge of Sentience by Jonathan Birch. And for good ...

To begin with an understatement: I am not given to political optimism, especially not now. In this time of utter hopelessness, when the entire world seems to have been remade in the image of the most ...

Astrobiology faces the fundamental challenge of searching for extraterrestrial life without a universal definition of life or examples beyond Earth, despite the discovery of over 5,000 exoplanets, ...

Davia sits down with author and brand strategist Skip Carney as he shares insights from his new book, Start With How Might We? Discover how this simple question can unlock creative breakthroughs, ...

The feeling will be familiar to many who have visited the great cities of history: I had come to Athens for the first time and made a pilgrimage to its democratic Assembly, Plato's Academy, and ...

When I open my smartphone in the morning, every social media app is full of advertisements marketing something to me. I feel like I’m trapped in a circuitous loop from ads and information coming ...

An undiscovered population of ancient black holes may be lurking throughout the universe. These bottomless cosmic pits would have a lot in common with more familiar black holes; in some cases, the two ...

Honesty is clearly an important virtue. Parents want to develop it in their children. Close relationships typically depend upon it. Employers value it in their employees. Yet philosophers have said ...

Here’s a crucial, yet often overlooked, truth about being and keeping healthy: people with few and loose social connections are more vulnerable to disease. You hardly have to be a physician to ...

For even a casual observer of Donald Trump's electoral career, it is clear that the former, and future, president has centered his political project on an opposition to immigration. He has, over and ...

In 1785 English philosopher Jeremy Bentham designed the perfect prison: Cells circle a tower from which an unseen guard can observe any inmate at will. As far as a prisoner knows, at any given time, ...