By Roxane Gay The world changes faster than we can fathom in ways that are complicated.  These bewildering changes often leave us raw. The cultural climate is shifting, particularly for…

By Chad Orzel Discover your inner scientist! Thinking like a scientist in solving your problems gives you the opportunity to approach the world in a fundamentally optimistic and enpowering way…

By Brian Clegg In the twenty-first century, being a pioneer may seem entirely alien. The closest we get to pioneering may be choosing different ingredients for dinner or watching that…

By Bill Nye There is no such thing as race. We are all the same race. We all come from a common ancestor. We are homo sapiens with different skin…

By Sam Harris Although we are only beginning to understand the human mind at the level of the brain, and we know nothing about how consciousness itself comes into being,…

photographer:  Nathan Johnson “What I really enjoyed was my Philosophy of Law class.  In my stubborn pursuit of justice, I only learned how subjective the objective is.“ Q. The decision…

Books Catching the Sun Tony Parsons In his own search for paradise, cabbie Tom Finn day-dreams about a life away from cabbing on the busy streets of North London. It…

By Ashleigh VanHouten Sometimes your enjoyment of something has no connection to what you are expecting. Eating for example can very often have less to do with the constituent parts…

First world problems make me sick. Ignorance isn’t always bliss. The third world may have no idea that only a plane ride away, their lives would improve tenfold—or maybe they…