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If There Were No Tomorrow

Faced with a stagnant economy and a demographic crisis, Japanese youth prefer not to think about the future. Instead, they live day-to-day.

Paulina Wilk

World + People

Nature

Never Outfoxed

Foxes are a remarkable species whose intelligence and pragmatism has led to them becoming the most widespread land predatory mammals on Earth.

Mikołaj Golachowski

World + People

Dreams and Visions

The Land of Real Dreams

Andrzej Górz, co-founder of Open Jazdów – a civil initiative in a unique settlement of wooden Finnish houses in the centre of Warsaw – talks about what utopia means to him.

Berenika Steinberg

Humor + Variety

Professor Filutek

Professor Filutek, part 33

A decibel duel.

World + People

Outer Space

Cosmic Transmissions (Spring, 2022)

Our science editor delivers news from Earth and space, including the James Webb Space Telescope, the sun’s Nemesis, and the longest thunderbolt ever recorded.

Łukasz Kaniewski

Soul + Body, AudioVisual

Good Mood, Audio

The Fabricating Mind

As the pioneering work of Elizabeth Loftus shows, memory is fallible – and can, in fact, be replaced by imagination when we are asked to recall past events.

Sylwia Niemczyk

Soul + Body

Wellbeing

Backwards

Walking backwards is extremely beneficial to us. One wonders why we don’t do it all the time!

Sylwia Niemczyk

So why has there been so much talk lately of people not believing in science? Several hundred years of science in practice, and 100% effectiveness (sooner or later) in rejecting erroneous ideas and hypotheses—are these not sufficient arguments for abandoning the notion of “faith in science” and simply trusting it?

Szymon Drobniak

Art + Stories

Fiction

The Trick

A horror story about an eye that drew the author into a trap.

Matthew Coachinger

The Universe Works Like a Huge Human Brain, Discover Scientists

World + People

Science

The Universe Works Like a Huge Human Brain, Discover Scientists

A new study found similarities between the human brain and the cosmic network of galaxies.

Paul Ratner

Art + Stories

Experiences

Bushidō, or the Idealized Way

The book “Bushido: The Soul of Japan” was a bestseller in the West. But what did its author – a Japanese economist, diplomat and politician – really know about the way of the samurai?

Piotr Żelazny

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