Plato’s best (and worst) ideas
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Few individuals have influenced the world and many of today’s thinkers like Plato. He created...
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Few individuals have influenced the world and many of today’s thinkers like Plato. He created...
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Tapping into the findings of his latest book, NYTimes columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights...
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Political polarization has become an increasingly common and prevalent development in the modern...
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Imagine you are one of the world’s greatest violin players, and you decide to conduct an...
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A mother and son trek across an endless desert. Wearing special suits to dissipate heat and...
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From social media to massive financial institutions, we live within a web of networks. But how do...
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Democracy thrives on civil debate, Michael Sandel says -- but we're shamefully out of practice....
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How good are you with money? What about reading people’s emotions? How healthy are you, compared...
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Today, rats are often regarded as the most successful invasive species in the world. The most...
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In the late 13th century, Osman I established a small principality sandwiched between a crumbling...
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A mountain separating two lakes. A room papered floor to ceiling with bridal satins. The lid of...
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In 1815, Mount Tambora erupted and its emissions spread across the globe, blotting out the sun...
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Ray Bradbury’s novel imagines a world where books are banned- and possessing, let alone reading...
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Language is endlessly variable. Each of us can come up with an infinite number of sentences in...
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Could human civilization eventually spread across the whole Milky Way galaxy? Could we move...
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Before the sun never set on the British Empire; before Genghis Khan swept the steppe; before Rome...
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This is episode 3 of the animated series, “Ada.” This 5-episode narrative follows the young...
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Anger is a complicated emotion. It can feel reasonable and righteous or impulsive and...
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Gutsy girls skateboard, climb trees, clamber around, fall down, scrape their knees, get right...
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A 2016 survey of freelancers in six countries found that those who freelance by choice– 70% of...
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They say the pen is mightier than the sword, and authorities have often agreed. From outlawed...
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By the early 1900’s, nearly every region of the globe had been visited and mapped, with only two...
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Afflicting nearly 1 in 10 Americans, syphilis was ravaging the U.S. in the 1930s. Many doctors...
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What’s as big as a polar bear, swallows its prey whole, and swims at forty miles an hour? It’s...
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Lead used to be a very common ingredient in many products, and unfortunately it still lingers in...
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Fourth graders from South Florida share messages with their elected officials about climate...
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Why does February have 28 days when all the other months get 30 or 31? The answer is part...
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Chances are you wouldn’t be able to recognize a biohazard even if you were looking right at one....
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Ever notice how cereal tends to stick together in the middle of the bowl? Or it clumps to the...
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The Western United States has been suffering from a drought for approximately 15 years, which has...
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What’s as big as a polar bear, swallows its prey whole, and swims at forty miles an hour? It’s...
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