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Organizing your home is often approached with a fairly straightforward formula: sort, purge, repeat. Do those tasks, and clutter won’t stand a chance, right? Wrong. As anyone who’s ever contended with ...

This post is part one of a series. The German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, considered by many to be one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century, set out in his magnum opus, Truth and ...

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While most libraries prefer that readers use their quiet voices, we just visited a library in Copenhagen where talking is actually encouraged. Ronni Abergel founded The Human Library (or ...

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Scientists have finally come face-to-face with an ancient human ancestor called Little Foot. A new digital reconstruction reveals the visage of one of our oldest close human relatives, researchers ...

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