philosophy On feeling strongly about uncertain moral truths After much reading and talking to ethics experts, my conclusion is that we know close to the same as we did when we started 2,500 years ago: very little.
philosophy Featured Being rich and powerful is a bad (modern) life goal The researchers watched the person's behavior without accounting for the choices they had. And you know who has a lot of choices? Powerful people.
philosophy Long-Distance Gardening Like the calories in a diet, every day we consume about 100,000 words with our minds. We ingest the equivalent of a book per day.
philosophy Being happy is a bad (modern) life goal Emotional delusions: Emotions we feel by interacting with modern human-made inventions.