The 6 Stages of Critical Thinking: Elder and Paul's Model Explained
The six-stage ladder of critical thinking, from the unreflective thinker at the bottom to the master thinker at the top. Graphic by Paul R...
Philosophy, Ethics & Big Questions
What makes a good life? How can we know whether a belief is justified? Philosophy starts with questions that remain interesting even when the answers are contested. Explore thinkers, arguments and everyday dilemmas, with room to examine an idea rather than simply collect a memorable quotation.
Why Negative Thoughts Stick: Alison Ledgerwood's Research
Originally published 2020-05-16. Why does one piece of criticism outlast a dozen compliments? Social psychologist Alison Ledgerwood of the ...
Emotional Intelligence vs Mental Strength: What's the Difference?
Originally published 2020-05-15. Emotional intelligence is the ability to notice, understand and manage emotions, both your own and other ...
10 Books You Have to Read, From Animal Farm to Momo
If you want a short list of novels that are easy to start, hard to forget and still talked about decades later, these ten are a good place ...
The Key to Happiness According to Epictetus, Epicurus and Aristotle
Ask three great Greek thinkers what makes a life happy and you get three different answers. Epictetus , the Stoic, said happiness depends o...
Bruce Lee Quotes: 33 Sayings on Mastery, Water and Self-Knowledge
Bruce Lee’s best-known sayings boil down to a few ideas: stay flexible like water, keep what works and drop what does not, know yourself th...
Lao Tzu Quotes: 33 Sayings and Which Are Really His
Laozi, also written Lao Tzu, is the sage traditionally credited with the Tao Te Ching, the short classic at the heart of Taoist thought. Hi...
29 Thought-Provoking Picture Quotes by Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short-sto...
8 Hobbies That Can Boost Your Brainpower, and What Research Shows
Yes, some hobbies can make you mentally sharper, but not in the way internet lists often promise. No pastime will turn an average person in...
12 Characteristics of People Who Have True Integrity
A person with integrity is someone whose actions match their values, consistently, whether or not anyone is watching. The word comes from t...
25 Quotes for Hard Days: Words on Resilience and Who Said Them
Originally published 2020-05-09. The best-known line on resilience is probably Albert Camus’s image of finding “an invincible summer” insi...
10 Gratitude Quotes, Who Really Said Them and How to Use Them
Originally published 2020-05-05. The best-known quotes about gratitude come from an unusually wide range of voices: a Roman statesman, an ...
Hypatia of Alexandria: TED-Ed's Animated Introduction
Hypatia of Alexandria was a philosopher, mathematician and astronomer who taught in the Egyptian city of Alexandria around the turn of the...
Van Gogh Quotes: 15 Popular Lines and Where They Really Come From
First published March 13, 2019. I Heart Intelligence Vincent van Gogh never wrote a book of sayings. Almost everything we can quote from ...
Tiny Eyes Comics by Siyu Cao: China and the West in Daily Life
Tiny Eyes is a webcomic by Siyu Cao, an illustrator and visual designer who was born and raised in Beijing. At 20 she left China to study E...
Simple Daily Life Rules: What to Keep, Adapt or Question
The short list of life rules in this post has been shared widely online for years, usually without an author's name. It reads like advi...
Ernest Hemingway Quotes: Which Ones He Really Wrote
Originally published 2019-02-01. Many of the most-shared "Ernest Hemingway quotes" are not his. Some come straight from his nove...
Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes on Struggle, Strength and Giving Back
First published January 24, 2019. Two lines often shared under Arnold Schwarzenegger's name sum up his message on success: that streng...
45 Nietzsche Quotes: Their Sources, Meanings and Misattributions
Most of the Friedrich Nietzsche quotes people share are genuine, but a handful are not. The famous lines about music, about having a "...
Epictetus Quotes: 40 Sayings Explained, With Their Real Sources
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic teacher who began life as a slave and ended it running one of the most respected schools of philosophy in the R...
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Cartoonist Pablo Stanley turned John Lennon’s Imagine into a webcomic in which each line of the song is paired with a drawing of people fr... -
Brad Pitt did not write the famous list of twenty marriage tips that circulates under his name. The real author is Gerald Rogers, a Brigham... -
First published January 14, 2017. Many people who describe themselves as empaths say they feel tense, tongue-tied or worn out around someo... -
"Who are you?" is the question at the heart of I Am Nature , an 81-second campaign film made for the conservation group WWF and p... -
First published March 14, 2017. Thyme cannot cure strep throat, herpes, a yeast infection or the flu. That is the honest answer to a claim ...
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Originally published 2017-12-02. "If you love her, don't destroy her" is the title of a widely shared 2017 letter by the Leb... -
If you want a home workout that needs no equipment, five moves cover almost the whole body: the plank, the squat, the bird-dog, the glute b... -
Originally published 2017-02-09. Letting go means deciding to stop carrying something that drains you: an expectation, a grudge, a habit o... -
Originally published 2020-04-27. "Weightless" is an eight-minute ambient track by the Manchester band Marconi Union , written wi... -
In early 2018 a young Thai woman named Atittaya Chumkeaw drew attention online for something simple: she kept posting happy photos with her...