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18/09/2018 - 16:42

Experts from Northwestern University sifted through data from more than 1.5 million questionnaire respondents to make the finding.... →

18/09/2018 - 16:18

Daily Dilemmas You might find yourself one day in a restaurant with friends and, feeling a little adventurous, you order a plate of... →

15/08/2018 - 15:06

Most of them have focused on money. When asked whether they would prefer to have, say, $150 today or $180 in one month, people tend to... →

07/08/2018 - 12:56

This duality is also a puzzle to ourselves, at the heart of cosmologies, theologies and tragedies, the motor of moral codes and the tension... →

25/06/2018 - 14:05

Less than a decade earlier, measles had been largely eliminated in the US. The gradual resurgence can, researchers say, be directly... →

31/05/2018 - 00:17

The older you get the more difficult it is to learn to speak French like a Parisian. But no one knows exactly what the cutoff point is—at... →

26/05/2018 - 11:30

For this study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the Center for Vital... →

04/05/2018 - 13:24

Why should we teach children philosophy? We’ve discussed before how studying the humanities is all but required for good... →

18/03/2018 - 14:29

But Shakespeare’s age-old narrative of decay, decrepitude and ultimately oblivion no longer works. We have the means to rebuild and replace... →

11/03/2018 - 15:37

Although it’s already well known that we should pace our studies, new research suggests that we should aim for “minimal interference”... →

16/02/2018 - 15:21

There are two premises that lead Cerf to believe personal company is the most important factor for long-term satisfaction. The first is... →

11/02/2018 - 13:21

In the 19th and 20th centuries, scholars largely abandoned these supernatural ideas. Prominent figures such as Sigmund Freud... →

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