In July 1930, Rabindranath Tagore visited Albert Einstein in Caputh, near Berlin, at his summerhouse. The meeting of the two ...

In the pages of The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, my friend Nathaniel Branden has summarized our popular understanding of self-esteem. However, another psychologist challenged Branden’s understanding in ...

Of all the popular storytelling artists striving to emulate Ayn Rand, the most significant was Steve Ditko. Ditko, a comic book artist, is most famous for co-creating Spider-Man and Dr. Strange. Rand, ...

Russia has launched an Oreshnik missile into Ukraine for the second time since the full-scale war began 2022, in a strike Kyiv’s allies say is meant as a warning for the West. Here’s what we know.

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Is consciousness everywhere? In every rock and atom? That is what panpsychists like the philosopher Philip Goff believe. They ...

The attack was just the second time that Moscow had launched the nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic weapon.

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George Orwell's crusade against the misuse of language resulted in his name becoming an adjective—and his writing becoming ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order making some big changes to marijuana policy, the most substantial since 1970. On Dec. 18, Trump ordered the government to stop classifying ...

On Sunday, Dec. 21, at exactly 10:03 a.m. EST, the Northern Hemisphere's astronomical winter officially begins with the winter solstice. That's the moment when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted ...