Politics

“This will help people take meaningful steps to slow the rate of aging and increase what we call their health span or their kind of time of life expectancy free from disease.”

“Our conscious awareness is everything. And the fact that it’s still so mysterious to scientists and to all of humanity, the fact that it’s still one of the great unsolved mysteries makes it something that everyone can be excited about and that inspires awe in everyone.”

We tend to trust our intuitions about consciousness because they feel immediate and personal, but feeling convinced is not the same as being right. Annaka Harris explores what happens when […]

Stoicism has been flattened into slogans about toughness, detachment, and emotional silence, a version that’s easy to sell, but mostly wrong.  Massimo Pigliucci returns Stoicism to its original purpose: a […]

“I continue to believe that in the long run, boys, young men will believe their eyes more than their ears.”