Yuval Noah Harari: the myth of freedom — Governments and corporations will soon know you better than you know yourself. Belief in the idea of ‘free will’ has become dangerous
Astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of Earth orbiting the nearby star 40 Eridani — precisely where Star Trek character Spock’s home planet Vulcan supposedly lies.
A new study has shown that people with autism are 3x as likely as the general population to have depression, and that the higher-functioning a person with autism is, the more likely they are to be depressed.
And yet more Deepart, this is TIAHBMISITIAHLKIAS/Sempiternal. This is probably the nicest one yet, though my algorith messed up a touch on the right side of the robe.
Octopuses Rolling on MDMA Reveal Unexpected Link to Humans: Serotonin — believed to help regulate mood, social behavior, sleep, and sexual desire — is an ancient neurotransmitter that’s shared across vertebrate and invertebrate species.
The Enlightenment's value was in teaching us that the world was intelligible. Here, Amie Thomasson & Julian Baggini consider whether relativism and postmodernism have made the Enlightenment dream irrelevant
Anthropic arrogance: Claims that the Universe is designed for humans raise far more troubling questions than they can possibly answer | David P. Barash