Universities have existed for more than a thousand years — and for almost all of that time, they weren’t centers of research. What changed in 19th century Germany?

Humanists created new venues to affirm our value. Now they're at risk of collapsing too.

When I spoke like someone I wasn’t, people listened more closely. What did that say about them – and me?

This account was written in 1969 for publication in Marihuana Reconsidered (1971). Sagan was in his mid-thirties at that time. He continued to use cannabis for the rest of his life.

Levitation was the last thing Teresa of Avila wanted. It drew the wrong kind of attention and embarrassed her in public. She tried to remain grounded, clinging to furniture when the weightlessness set...

Aesthetic experience is widely believed to foster creativity, yet the neural mechanisms mediating this link remain poorly defined. Here, we propose five key brain networks that may support this…

Religious experiences are important for many human traditions. A predictive processing-based approach to religious experiences previously identified sensory dep...

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Coyotes, bats, moths, raccoons, deer, and more: an exploration of the city’s dusk-till-dawn wildlife and the humans who study it

As the public begins to believe Google isn’t as useful anymore, what happens to the cottage industry of search engine optimization experts who struck content oil and smeared it all over the web? Well, they find a new way to get rich and keep the party going.

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Above, you can watch 81 video lectures tracing the history of philosophy, moving from Ancient Greece to modern times. Arthur Holmes presented this influential course at Wheaton College for decades, an...

Psychedelic therapy is commonly understood as a form of psychotherapy. However, despite promising results from clinical trials, scientific progress has been hindered by a lack of theoretical integration between the fields of psychedelic and psychotherapy research.

This paper critically discusses whether mystical experiences induced by psychedelics should be considered inauthentic or counterfeit forms of mystical experiences.

Curt Jaimungal speaks with Andres Gomez-Emilsson of the Qualia Research Institute about modeling consciousness and rendering it.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy premieres January 15, exclusively on Paramount+. This thrilling new chapter follows a fresh class of cadets as they train under the watchful, demanding eyes of…

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Sloane Crosley on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s On Booze and the state of American drinking culture.

Why are certain common classes of ritually destroyed objects (persons, artifacts, or architecture), such as persecuted witches, so difficult to identify in the archaeological record?