Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

Could the Star of Bethlehem have been caused by a “great conjunction” of the bright planets Venus and Jupiter? On June 17, 2 B.C., the planets had come so close they would have almost appeared as one ...

Global drought rarely arrives as a single, sweeping event. Some years feel widespread, with dry conditions stretching across ...

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Some experiences stick because they make no sense, even to science. A sudden feeling, a flash of memory, a laugh out of nowhere—they’re ordinary yet endlessly mysterious, quietly shaping how we ...

While many of my readers are philosophers, or have at least studied philosophy for a while at university, many are not. So I was reluctant to get into metaphysical debates within philosophy, fearing ...

Food is something every single person on the planet deals with multiple times a day. We eat, we taste, we crave, we feel full ...

Experts have found that breakups, especially a difficult, unexpected one, can burrow deep into our subconscious. Everyone knows they hurt, but science shows they can alter our bodies as well as our ...

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