Over the last couple of decades, there’s been a significant focus on how to collect more data. Business leaders, technology gurus and data scientists have all wondered how we could collect, store and ...

In 1950, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) issued a statement asserting that all humans belong to the same species and that "race" is not a biological ...

On a scale of one to seven — one being not at all and seven being very much — how similar do you think you are to a terrorist? When Boston College researchers asked hundreds of students this question, ...

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Your support goes further this holiday season. When you buy an annual membership or give a one-time contribution, we’ll give a membership to someone who can’t afford access. It’s a simple way for you ...

I grew up on the short story “Toba Tek Singh,” an Urdu satire on the Partition. While the story’s protagonist is a Sikh man, for whom the story is named, the character that stuck with me most was an ...

Is there life after death? Theologians can debate all they want, but radiation oncologist Dr. Jeffrey Long says if you look at the scientific evidence, the answer is unequivocally yes. Drawing on a ...

I believe in truth. And in the pursuit of truth. When I was 10 years old, I asked a neighborhood kid who was older than me, "Which city is further west: Reno, Nev., or Los Angeles?" The correct answer ...

Love languages—the concept coined by Baptist pastor Gary Chapman some 30 years ago—has taken the relationships world by storm. It’s often the “go-to” topic on first dates, and, for those in ...

In all of television history, has there ever been a musical cue more inevitable than Peggy Lee’s “Is That All There Is?” appearing in an episode of Mad Men? It’s hard to think of a song that better ...