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What does it mean to live a good life? For centuries, philosophers, scientists and people of different cultures have tried to answer this question.

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Solving one of the oldest algebra problems isn't a bad claim to fame, and it's a claim Norman Wildberger can now make: The ...

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A deadly superbug that sometimes claims the lives of more than a million people globally a year may have a nemesis that lives ...

Kahneman said not to expect the results to change anyone's mind, even if they decisively favored one theory over another.