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National parks are great. Now, let’s create a World Park
To preserve biodiversity and ecosystems, protected areas should be connected into a gigantic World Park.
Should the Pythagorean theorem be renamed the Thalean theorem?
Thales may have known the famous theorem perhaps as much as half a century before Pythagoras.
Six strange things to do with your body after you die
Even the most unorthodox posthumous plans have their own historical, spiritual, and scientific significance.
Synecdoche: what a psychological drama can teach us about life and death
Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York is the kind of film that makes you laugh and cry at the same time.
Marriage lotteries and a bachelors’ tax: The strange past of fighting declining birthrates
Birthrates have gone up and down throughout history.
If you knew the future, would you still choose your life?
If you had perfect foreknowledge of the blessings and tragedies that will come in your life, would you make the same choices anyway?
Black holes caught eating neutron stars for first time
The stars stood no chance against the more-massive black holes.
Isolating carbon from human ashes to create diamonds
In just 11 months, this lab can grow a memorial diamond from the ashes of a loved one. Can they change how we cope with loss?
Steven Weinberg: the passing of science’s most intellectual spokesman
As important as his Nobel Prize-winning technical accomplishments was his ability to communicate to the public.