Rebecca Newberger Goldstein argues that a good life is one that seeks to create order out of a natural state of chaos.

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Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

Edward O. Wilson is simultaneously one of my intellectual heroes and someone who frustrates me enormously, and these conflicting feelings were once again stirred as I read his most recent book, The ...

Dostoevsky’s quote of the day reflects on life’s deeper purpose, reminding readers that true meaning lies not in survival ...

Most of us do it, be it romantic, familial, friendly or formal, but kissing among humans and where and how it originated is still hotly debated among historians and anthropologists. Now a new theory ...

Would higher taxes on Earth's elite be more beneficial to the global population's health than all the life-extension science Bezos billions can fund? Reading time 3 minutes A growing area of ...

Researchers are now suggesting that male and female lifespans continue to increase linearly, and have not yet hit a hard limit. Previous studies argued that human life expectancy is increasing by less ...