Kathryn Schulz, author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error: "We need to be able to look at the vastness and complexity of the universe and say, 'Wow, I dunno. Maybe I'm wrong.'" John Hunter, creator of World Peace Games says,  "I allow them to learn, in a bloodless way, how to do what's right." Legendary film crit...

If you look at mortality data across the United Kingdom, a striking correlation materializes: the higher the latitude, the greater the relative risk of death. This is true even when controlling for risk factors like smoking cigarettes and eating bad food. So, what’s going on? The answer may lie in sunlight—there’s more in the south than there i...