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Studies shed light on how people judge whether a person is heroic. Brave and selfless? Check. Patriotic and respectable? Maybe. Judgments are in part shaped by cultural values.
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Recent efforts to deprescribe SSRI antidepressants are raising flags over conflicting evidence, leading to polarized reports.
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Nature uses biological "blunders" to adapt and survive. Culture demands conformity to create belonging. What happens when ...
The alien intelligence we’ve been searching for may already be here, hiding in what emerges between its architecture and ours.