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Open up your mind with mind-blowing quizzes and find inspiration on how to deal with the most urgent global challenges

Don’t Believe Things That ‘Everybody Knows’

Can you really see the Great Wall of China from space?

Nothing Exists Alone

What’s the missing word in Carson’s quote?

Should We Colonize Other Planets?

On the implications of terraforming other planets

Can You Tell Rembrandt From AI?

Today, algorithms compete with great art and literature

The Only Species That Opposes Same-Sex Activity

Is same-sex behavior natural?

The Autonomous Weapons Arms Race

Will future wars be fought by robots?

The Mystery of the Shortest Human Species

There once lived an actual dwarf human species

How Will Our Senses Evolve in the Future?

There’s a lot to learn from the evolution of senses

How Can We Fight Epidemics?

When did epidemics begin, and which one was the deadliest?

Is There a True God?

Who gets to decide which god is real? And what will gods look like in the future?

Why Do We Tell Ourselves Stories?

What’s the missing word in Didion’s quote?

Could You Beat a Chimp in a Brain Test?

Some animals outperform humans in certain tasks. With genetic engineering this can change

The Most Widespread Form of Exploitation in Human History

What’s the missing word in Melanie Joy’s quote?

Will We Survive the Sixth Extinction?

We have a lot to learn from past extinctions

The Only Lasting Truth

What’s the missing word in Butler’s quote?

Would You Like to Live Forever?

The race for the elixir of life is underway

Can You Spot the Human Embryo?

This may prove much more difficult than you think

What Are Human Beings?

What are the missing words in Rushkoff’s quote?

Why We Read Books

What’s the missing word in Le Guin’s quote?

From Ancient Myths to Superhero Comics

What’s humanity’s oldest creation story?

Are These People Real or AI?

Surely you can distinguish real faces from AI-generated ones, right?

Is Artificial Intelligence the End?

What’s the missing word in Hawking’s quote?

Should We De-extinct Animals?

Scientists are working to bring back extinct species. Exciting or creepy?

How Much of a Cat Are You?

How much DNA do you share with your cat?

We Are Members of a Larger Group

What’s the missing word in Sagan’s quote?

Do You Need a Big Brain to Be Intelligent?

The answer is more complicated than you might think

The Stones That Made Us

Toolmaking gave us more than you might think

How Many Human Species Exist Today?

Believe it or not, there are ghosts in our DNA

When Does One Really Start Living?

What’s the missing word in Martin Luther King’s quote?

Nothing in Life is to Be Feared

What’s the missing word in Curie’s quote?

What Are Identities, Really?

What’s the missing word in Harari’s quote?

Doing Our Best To Find Out

What’s the missing word in Pratchett’s quote?

You Are Not Atlas Carrying the World on Your Shoulder

What’s the missing word in Shiva’s quote?

What is the Opposite of Nature?

What’s the missing word in Fuller’s quote?

The One Thing You Can’t Ignore

What’s the missing word in Heinlein’s quote?

Hanna Arendt’s Dangerous Enterprise

What’s the missing word in Arendt’s quote?

The Highest Forms of Understanding

What’s the missing word in Feynman’s quote?

The Single Greatest Constant of History

What’s the missing word in Harari’s quote?

The Greatest Danger to Our Future

What’s the missing word in Goodall’s quote?

The Ocean Doesn’t Have to Be Dirty

What’s the missing word in Gandhi’s quote?

What Is the Universe Made of?

What’s the missing word in Rukeyser’s quote?

What’s Our Role on This Planet?

What’s the missing word in Clarke’s quote?

Did Animal Domestication Go Too Far?

Domestic animals make up a huge 66% of the biomass of vertebrates on earth

Did Gandhi Really Say That?

Can you tell real from fake? Let’s test your knowledge

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Are We More Evolved Than Cockroaches?

You may not be the only one who deserves an A++ score in the Evolution Course

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The Grain That Domesticated Humans

The dramatic and incredible consequences of domesticating wheat

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How Ancient Are the Pyramids, Really?

And what will the 22nd century’s monuments look like?

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Where Did the Alphabet Come From?

The history of writing has some unexpected twists and turns

Inside Someone Else’s Head

What’s the missing word in Gaiman’s quote?

Human Beings’ Uniqueness

What’s the missing word in Adams’ quote?

The Trouble With Human Beings

What’s the missing word in Midgley’s quote?