Category: Lifestyle

“There is no leader, there is no teacher, there is nobody to tell you what to do. You are alone in this mad brutal world.”

For Max Weber, only the most heroic figures could generate meaning in the world. Does his theory hold up today?

Social scientists cling to simple models of reality – with disastrous results. Instead they must embrace chaos theory.

The problem is that investment is driven by profit, not price, and operating solar and wind farms remains a marginal business…

‘The Germans have a phrase for the sense of panic many of us feel when a goal is within our reach: Torschlusspanik’.

This ‘Universe 25’ idea comes from American scientist John Calhoun. He creates an ‘ideal world’ where rats will live and breed.

Xi has reversed the pragmatic “learn from practice” approach of Deng Xiaoping’s “reform and opening up”.

“Our culture today is likely to push you to be a Platonist…this is certainly convenient for businesses and political parties…but it can also…”

Women typically rated higher than men on each of the so-called Big Five traits – openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.

Permanently shadowed regions on the moon are the perfect spots for preserving deep-frozen organisms.

“Well, sometimes Ledwinka looked over my shoulder and sometimes I looked over his.” –Ferdinand Porsche on designing the Volkswagen.

In 2018, field researchers in Uganda came across an unusual sight: a female chimpanzee carried an infant that she had recently given birth to…