A middle-aged man lies awake at two in the morning, his heart racing as he faces one unavoidable truth: One day, his consciousness will stop. The room is silent, but his mind is filled with fear of no ...

Arguably, one of the worst insults you can throw at a person is calling them “lazy.” To be told you’re lazy isn’t just a throwaway comment about organizational skills or energy levels. It suggests ...

The Boltzmann brain hypothesis suggests that our memories are nothing more than unlikely fluctuations. According to the theory, the past and the future don’t exist—only the present does. Researchers ...

Pro-MAGA commentator Matt Walsh argued the claim Israel has a “right to exist” is bogus — and the same goes for the USA and every other country on earth. Walsh made his case on the Monday episode of ...

Quite recently, my new book, Knowledge Doesn’t Exist and Other Thoughts on Critical Thinking, was released by Cambridge University Press. The focus of the book was largely inspired by a conversation I ...

Spacetime isn’t something that exists; it’s a model for describing how events happen. Treating events as objects creates philosophical confusion and fuels misconceptions, such as time-travel paradoxes ...

Did a woman arrive from Tokyo, Japan, at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City with a passport of a nonexistent country named "Torenza", as viral videos and text posts claim? No, that's not true: ...

There is no legal mechanism for President Donald Trump to designate antifa as a domestic terrorist organization — and his executive order attempting to do so has only spurred questions about how the ...

Whether space-time exists should neither be controversial nor even conceptually challenging, given the definitions of “space-time,” “events” and “instants.” The idea that space-time exists is no more ...

Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is once again raising eyebrows, this time over a resurfaced clip in which he says, "Israel is not a place, it is not a country." Mamdani, who ...

No, I don't think any one generative AI tool from the major players is more ethical than any other. Here’s why. For me, the ethics of generative AI use can be broken down to issues with how the models ...

Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past or is happening now outside our immediate experience. Uncertainty has been called the ...