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When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

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When you try to understand people and explain why they do what they do, what frame do you use? The most common, intuitive (and highly useful) approach is the “belief-desire” frame. That is, people in ...

Are there unanswerable questions? Or can scientists, through their remarkable ingenuity and inventiveness, answer all questions related to physical reality? Since Thales of Miletus wondered about the ...

A famous quote is Never Apologize, Never Explain. I have heard this used by a number of executives, almost exclusively men. This seemed to capture the zeitgeist of back in the day. I am not sure it ...