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Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...

These days, it’s taken for granted that the comics industry has become a media juggernaut in the western world—as evidenced by the myriad movies based on comic-book heroes that have been released over ...

A thin layer of ancient clay, deposited across the entire planet 66 million years ago, has preserved the chemical fingerprint of the asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs. By measuring nickel ...

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It’s a favourite among Fortune 100 companies, government agencies and regular people. More than 1.5 million people ...

Over the last few weeks, there’s been a growing storm over the claims of some that the Covid vaccines are unsafe, that ivermectin is an unjustly suppressed miracle drug and related concerns. Much of ...

In the Roman Catholic church, children are required to attend catechism class in order to learn their religion’s key dogmas, as a prerequisite for baptism and First Communion. Likewise, in some ...

Life is utterly meaningless, but this is a great opportunity to have fun creating our own meanings—that’s the latest postmodern self-help mantra. The trend known as optimistic nihilism is a ...

In 1964, US President Lyndon B. Johnson made a historic request: he wanted a large-scale, nuclear-powered desalination programme to address the growing need for potable water in the American Southwest ...

Critical Race Theory (CRT) originated in higher education, but its political relevance has become more than academic, especially in the United States. Although CRT sprung from legal scholarship, ...

A few years into my American life, I took a class on western thought. The only philosopher on the syllabus familiar to me was Karl Marx, and he wasn’t why I’d signed up: I’d had enough of him in the ...