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Personality tests sometimes come in for criticism these days for not being very accurate or helpful or for ...

Let's say you have a chance to become a vampire, where you'd get the immortality and the supernatural ...

We often suppose that wars are fought over things like resources, border disputes, and ideologies. My guest ...

In the Orthodox Church, Easter and Christmas are preceded by 40-day seasons in which adherents forgo ...

As you move through time, you exist as a present self who makes decisions, an in-between self who should ...

The world can be divided into agents and objects.  Things that make stuff happen, and things that ...

While studying history back in the 1990s, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss noticed something: there ...

Like many American boys who grew up in the 1980s, I loved The Karate Kid. For months when I was five years ...

Recently, there's been increased interest in extending the human lifespan — not only making it to the ...

When you're taking a trip on a nautical vessel, you may hear the crew talking about seeing something off ...

 If you're an athlete, you know that it can be helpful to get psyched up before a big game. But getting ...

In your quest for self-improvement, you'll likely encounter moments of despair where your current self ...

The last time we had entrepreneur, professor, and author Luke Burgis on the show, he discussed the ...

Throughout each day, all of us make little shifts in our roles and responsibilities; we take off one hat ...

When Americans think back to the War of Independence, most are apt to feel that, had they lived back then, ...

You come home from a hard day at work feeling like you could use a stiff drink. You contemplate ...

My flight was awful. The restaurant's service was terrible. The traffic was horrible. My boss is the ...

When you welcome a child into the world, folks often tell you: “Savor this time. The days are long, but ...

I turned 40 last December.  No, I haven't had a midlife crisis.  But that number did cause ...

For almost the entirety of the history of media, gatekeepers controlled what content made it into the ...