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Most people treat changing their mind as a kind of failure — a crack in the foundation of what they believe. But what if updating your beliefs in the face of new evidence wasn't a collapse at all, but...

3 Huhti 21min

Imagine standing in front of a massive control board with hundreds of dials and switches. Your job is to find the perfect combination of settings to maximize performance — but every single test costs ...

3 Huhti 21min

Every time you type a search query into Google, an invisible brain is working behind the scenes to figure out what you actually mean — not just the words you typed, but the intent behind them. That br...

3 Huhti 20min

At 24 years old, Billie Eilish has two Academy Awards, is the fastest female artist to reach 10 billion Spotify streams, and is in advanced talks to make her film acting debut as the lead in a Sylvia ...

3 Huhti 18min

She was the defining voice of American jazz — a million records sold, standing ovations at Carnegie Hall, and a vocal style that rewrote the rules of popular music. Yet Billie Holiday died at 44, hand...

3 Huhti 21min

Ever watched a massive flock of birds sweep across the sky in perfect coordination and wondered how they avoid crashing into each other? That seemingly chaotic dance actually contains a biological alg...

3 Huhti 22min

In the late 1970s, Brazilians living under a military dictatorship needed a way to mock the government without getting arrested. Their solution? They borrowed from American pop culture, calling the re...

3 Huhti 21min

Before she was an Oscar-winning icon, Cate Blanchett was a goth teenager with a shaved head working at a Melbourne nursing home — and moonlighting as an American cheerleader extra in an Egyptian boxin...

3 Huhti 17min