Get Brilliant at And the first 295 to sign up for a premium account get 20% off every month! Do you make your own decisions? Science says maybe not. Not really, anyway. Starting in the 1950s, neuroscientists turned to split brain surgery in an effort to cure epileptics with uncontrollable...
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There was a time when traveling circuses and freak shows were the preeminent form of entertainment of the day. Some people made a great living as human oddities, showing off their natural (and unnatural) bodies. Here are 10 of the most famous.
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If we’re ever going to reach other star systems, we need a new type of revolutionary propulsion system. NASA’s Eagleworks Lab is exploring the fringes of physics to find exactly that.
Get a free month of Squarespace at With rising global temperatures and a rising population, the way we produce and consume food is going to have to undergo a fundamental change around the world. Here are some of the technologies and innovations that could find their way to our dinner...
70,000 years ago, the human population hit a major bottleneck, and scientists aren’t exactly sure why. One of the more popular explanations has been the Toba explosion, the massive explosion of the Toba supervolcano that occurred at roughly that same time, but has been mostly...