How to understand power – Eric Liu
Every day of your life, you move through systems of power that other people made. Do you sense them? Do you understand power? Do you realize why it matters? Power...
Every day of your life, you move through systems of power that other people made. Do you sense them? Do you understand power? Do you realize why it matters? Power...
Long before Descartes famously declared, “I think, therefore I am,” and long after that, scientists and philosophers alike have puzzled over what they call the mind-body problem. Is the mind...
The largest organ in your body isn’t your liver or your brain. It’s your skin, with a surface area of about 20 square feet in adults. Though different areas of...
It’s a common saying that elephants never forget, but these magnificent animals are more than giant walking hard drives. The more we learn about elephants, the more it appears that...
In 1861, two scientists got into a very brainy argument. Specifically, they had opposing ideas of how speech and memory operated within the human brain. Ernest Aubertin, with his localistic...
A famous Ancient Greek once said, “Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth.” But this wasn’t some wizard claiming to perform impossible feats. It was...
The onset of cancer usually begins as a solitary tumor in a specific area of the body. If the tumor is not removed, cancer has the ability to spread to...
Have you ever noticed something swimming in your field of vision? It may look like a tiny worm or a transparent blob, and whenever you try to get a closer...
When you think of natural history museums, you probably picture exhibits filled with ancient lifeless things, like dinosaurs meteroites, and gemstones. But behind that educational exterior, which only includes about...
What do an ancient Greek philosopher and a 19th century Quaker have in common with Nobel Prize-winning scientists? Although they are separated over 2,400 years of history, each of them...