Growing up in the US during the oil embargo of the early 1970s, I was bombarded by public service announcements encouraging people to conserve energy. But at a very young age, I also read that “energy ...

Frank Wilczek has one of the most brilliant and original minds in theoretical physics, having come up with the idea of time ...

Quantum physics is often described as the most successful scientific framework in history. In its 100 years of existence, it has explained everything from the periodic table of the elements to how ...

From ancient Greek philosopher Plato to Neo, hero of the dystopian film fantasy The Matrix, humans have long pondered the true nature of reality. Can we trust what we see, taste, touch, smell, and ...

A lecture to honor Professor Jay Garfield on the occasion of his upcoming retirement from Smith College Challenging essentialist metaphysical perspectives East and West, Madhyamaka or the ‘Middle Way’ ...

White light can be blinding, cold, unforgiving. Our physical reality often finds it too much as well, splitting it apart any chance it gets. Plants are green because such wavelengths of light help it ...

In my previous blog post, I reviewed the published evidence that the use of psychedelic drugs—also known as entheogens—can change our religious beliefs. For example, several studies based on ...

Qimmit — a type of sled dog that has been kept by Inuit in Greenland for nearly 1,000 years — don’t share much DNA with wolves, despite a reputation for having been interbred. Researchers collected ...

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis avoids LSD, preferring gaming and reading for insights into life's deeper questions. Hassabis recently told Wired's Steven Levy that he values his mental acuity for ...