Category: Lifestyle
Can Plastic Waste Be Transformed Into Food For Humans?
Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source?
Dan Go: 6 Powerful Exercises I’m Doing to Slow Down the Aging Process
by Dan Go at The High Performance Journal: At the time of writing this, I’m…
Capitalism, Mass Anger and the 2024 Elections
Western capitalism is no longer the world’s colonial master. The American empire that succeeded the European empires has now followed them into decline.
United States of Algorithms: The Case For Artificially Intelligent Government
Danny Crichton in City Journal: Digital quantification determines Americans’ quality of life. Algorithms select job…
History of Emotions: To Ancient Assyrians, the Liver Was the Seat of Happiness
Have you ever stopped to wonder whether the way you experience emotion in your body is the same as someone raised in a different…
Buddhist Ethics And The Bodhisattva Path
Jay Garfield at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: A final idea that frames Harris’ interpretation of…
Why Intellectual Humility Isn’t Always a Virtue
Intellectual humility has recently been hailed as the key to thinking well. The story of Barbara McClintock proves otherwise.
The Surprising Psychology Behind Your Urge to Break the Rules
Paul Bloom on TED: We all experience it: that desire to do something wrong just…
The Surprising Origins and Politics of Equality
Capital in the Twenty-First Century became a surprise bestseller, and inequality became a signature concern of the new century.
The Value of Our Values
When Nietzsche used the tools of philology to explore the nature of morality, he became a ‘philosopher of the future’.
A Dated Conspiracy Theory Rises Again
by Jeroen van Baar at 3 Quarks Daily: In the chart-topping podcast The Rest is…
An introduction to Migration in the Ancient World [Interactive Map]
From OUP: Migration has played a vital role in shaping human history and continues to…