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Modern Science in Agreement With the Hadith that Says There’s a Cure in the Wing of a Fly (Video)
1400 years ago, Prophet Mohammad said, “If a fly falls into one of your containers [of…
Ants, AI, And The Slippery Idea Of Intelligence
by Jochen Szangolies: The arbor porphyriana is a scholastic system of classification in which each individual…
How to Make a Decision When There’s No ‘Right’ One
Maybe it’s comforting to know that there isn’t a rational route to the right decision...spend less…
A New Study Suggests That People Who Become Affluent Have Less Sympathy For the Poor Than the Born Rich Do
Psychologist Susan Pinker explores new discoveries in the science of human nature. Susan Pinker’s column in…
Is Birdsong Music, Speech, Or Something Else Altogether? (Videos)
Ian Rose at JSTOR Daily: To some extent, we all know music when we hear it:…
The Shocking Prophecies by Alois Irlmaier (Video)
While many self-appointed fortune tellers have always been suspected of being nothing more than brazen fraudsters,…
Imaginary Numbers Are Real
Since ancient times, mathematicians have known that other types of numbers also exist. Now physicists are…
How the Best Organizations Manage Talent
Roger Draper at McKinsey Classics: A decade ago, a McKinsey study of R&D laboratories found that…