Terms like ‘affordability,’ ‘socialism’ and ‘famine’ take on new, politically convenient meanings.

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

DM Is a water molecule (H20) generally stable (aka: somewhat "permanent") in its solid, liquid and gaseous states; or does it diminish/return to hydrogen and liquid; or does it change into other more complex or different molecules? I realize there are "lighter" formations of water. Water molecules are remarkably stable across all three phases - solid ice, liquid water, and gaseous steam. The H₂O molecule itself doesn't spontaneously break apart into hydrogen and oxygen under

For all its promise, tech risks instilling in students an unthinking yet false understanding of themselves, writes University of Dallas President Jonathan J. Sanford.

The attack at Brown University is just the latest example.

The problem with fixating on inequality, oligarchy, and other abstractions Excerpt: "As Stephen Colbert explained long ago , common sense comes from thinking “from the gut, not the brain.” Psychologists have a more sophisticated way of articulating this distinction. As readers of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow or Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink know, the human mind exhibits two different systems of cognition. The first is rapid and concrete, focusing on primary represent

History shows that progress often depends on activists at both ends of the spectrum. More from " The Engine of Progress" ... Exploring the people and ideas driving humanity forward.

Short-form video is taking over everything (including reading).

More schools are offering company housing to prevent educators from fleeing to cheaper locales. ‘They go to Idaho, they go to Texas.’

“When a news organization recognizes you’re cognitively depleted and serves you digestible audio instead of demanding you parse 1,500 words, that’s institutional empathy at scale.” In 2026, two forces that have been reshaping media will reach critical mass: the creator-driven information ecosystem and cognitive personalization.

To get closer to his feathered neighbors, Adam Nicolson built a treehouse designed for both human and avian inhabitants.

How can doctors talk about the net benefits of COVID shots if they won’t acknowledge the worst risk?

Rise of the LLeMmings

An emerging field of history asks if we can ever really understand how our forebears experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow.

University leaders rethink campus infrastructure, smart technology and hybrid work models to remove pain points and create a seamless digital experience

Many parents are teaching their children that they don’t owe their relatives hugs—which means new rules for everyone.

Headlines keep pulling our attention toward high-profile clashes between politicians and elite research universities. But quietly, out of the spotlight, a far more immediate crisis is taking shape on campuses that may look "fine" from the outside: dozens of small and midsize private colleges with familiar names are far closer to the financial edge than their public statements suggest.

The Thanksgivings of yore featured overcooked turkeys and Jell-O salad. Surely we’ve evolved.

Fundamental reform, not quick fixes, will save America’s education system. Excerpt: " Though no one has suggested it, the government’s fiscal problems could be solved by an 8 percent income tax surcharge. Nobody has suggested it because it is an absurd idea, but we have already imposed a comparable tax on K-12 students: The declines in student achievement over the past dozen years work out to similar lifetime income reductions!"

On 40 years of the most exuberant and curious and beloved and detested Muppet.