In his article "What Makes Us Human? Doing Pointless Things for Fun," Matthew Harris shares a profound learning about the nature of conscious beings. "I was once in the south-eastern Sahara, in ...

“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve,” Jon Krakauer writes in his bestselling book about adventurer Chris McCandless, Into the Wild, “to ...

Humanity has produced some truly elite ideas. The snooze button, read receipts, and trash bags with drawstrings that actually close. Civilizational wins. Whoever invented these absolutely understood ...