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Unable to handle uncertainty, AI mimics the narcissistic compulsion to fill voids with plausible but false narratives ...

Amid an 18-year prison sentence for bank robbery, a member of the Stopwatch Gang reflects on the fluid nature of time ...

Every one of us has certain rules about how we behave in particular situations, relate to other people, or present ourselves in the world. But rule-following, like anything, can be taken too far. As a ...

Imagine trying to describe everything you see, think or feel with only 120-140 words. That’s the challenge posed by Toki Pona, a constructed language developed by Sonja Lang in an effort to simplify ...

The British author and adventurer Lucy Irvine found herself, from an early age, at odds with the expectations and conventions into which she was born. Uninterested in the structure of schooling, and ...

These are not the kind of events that disrupt the course of your life. But they are all annoying, and sometimes bothersome enough that they could set the tone for the rest of your day. Annoying ...

To some, the idea of leaving a religion can seem as innocuous as cancelling a gym membership. However, for many who have left a faith tradition, the reality is much more complicated. As a psychologist ...

How did humans create the earliest words? Iconic vocal sounds, which match form and meaning, likely played a key role Language gives us the power to describe, virtually without limit, the countless ...

In 392 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I outlawed one of the oldest and most well-established mystery cults in the Greek-speaking world, the Eleusinian Mysteries, which had taken place for more than ...