EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE

The Illusion of Free Will

The Illusion of Free Will

Here is an apple and here’s a banana. Pick one. Whichever one you picked, it was your decision, completely. This is what we call free will. It’s the idea that...
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13 minutes of useless information..

13 minutes of useless information..

"Computer” - it’s a simple word. But if you think of it, this word has been radically redefined since being coined in the 1600s. At first, it actually referred to...
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The Odds of Existence

The Odds of Existence

In life, anything is possible. Because we can never fully understand how the world works and the laws of physics prevent us from being able to tell the future, everything...
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The Unspoken Rules of Society

The Unspoken Rules of Society

You wake up in the morning, head outside, and you say “good morning” to your next door neighbor. You walk down the street and you see a familiar face; you...
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All The Times We Were Wrong

All The Times We Were Wrong

  If I told you right now that humans are “perfect” organisms, and that in our mothers wombs, we first are fishes, who then develop into amphibians, and then reptiles,...
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Origami: The Art of Paper Folding

Origami: The Art of Paper Folding

A blank sheet of paper. It’s the birthplace of so much art, so many ideas. Sketching, painting, writing - these are just some of the things that come to mind...
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Relativity: Warping the Fabric of Spacetime

Relativity: Warping the Fabric of Spacetime

  When someone is asked what they want to do with their life, we’re used to a familiar response: “I want to change the world, I want to make an...
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The Most Complex Word in the English Language

The Most Complex Word in the English Language

  What is the most complex word in the English language?  At first, you might think of something long, like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, which is among the longest words of the English...
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Entropy: The Heat Death of The Universe

Entropy: The Heat Death of The Universe

Meet Arthur. Arthur is really good at math and he always has been. In fact, he planned on going to college to study math. But recently, life didn’t pan out...
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Nihilism: The Belief in Nothing

Nihilism: The Belief in Nothing

  We all know how it goes. One day we’re born, one day we die. Everything that happens in between we know and understand, but everything that happened before and...
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The Nostalgia Effect

The Nostalgia Effect

You look out the window into the empty streets. No sounds of kids running around, no noise of busy streets littered with both cars and pedestrians. The city is silent,...
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Stoicism: Become Undefeatable

Stoicism: Become Undefeatable

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” - Seneca In the city of Cyprus in 300 BC, there lived a very wealthy trader called Zeno. While on a voyage...
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