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Source: Good News Network By Dr. Neel Burton, Psychiatrist at Oxford University Most people think of depression as a mental disorder, that is, a biological illness of the brain. Here I argue that the concept of depression as a mental disorder has been unhelpfully overextended to include all

Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think Stephen Hawking, cosmologist, theoretical physicist and popular science educator, died on March 14, 2018. The Royal Mint is celebrating his work and life with a collector’s coin that’s selling for 10 pounds. Hawking’s younger son said he imagined his

Source: Futility Closet In 1898, two lions descended on a company of railway workers in British East Africa. For nine months they terrorized the camp, carrying off a new victim every few days, as engineer John Patterson struggled to stop them. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast

Author: Tom Siegfried / Source: Science News Every field of science has its favorite anniversary. For physics, it’s Newton’s Principia of 1687, the book that introduced the laws of motion and gravity. Biology celebrates Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859) along with his birthday (1809).

Author: Jim Baggott / Source: Big Think ‘The theory produces a good deal but hardly brings us closer to the secret of the Old One,’ wrote Albert Einstein in December 1926. ‘I am at all events convinced that He does not play dice.’ Einstein was responding to a letter from the German physicist Max