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Take a look at the companies and spacecraft that NASA thinks might help lead humanity’s journeys into space.

By discovering what drives you, you can tap into your deepest motivations and achieve your full creative potential, says writer and professor Meta Wagner.

In the “hell” of incarceration, Cristina Domenech finds the raw material for poetry

纺织设计师苏珊·李正在探索用细菌等活体生物培育服装材料的可能性。她创立的Biocouture公司通过发酵工艺生产微生物纤维素，干燥后形似植物皮革，有望彻底改变时装业的制造模式，开创更环保、更可持续的未来时尚。

Russian artist Uldus creates surreal photographic portraits of maidens, demons, heroines and gnomes.

When TED posted the talk by Monica Lewinsky, the haters came out in force. TED’s social media editor, Nadia Goodman, describes what happened — and how she and her team countered the vitriol, one comment at a time.

本周苏格兰独立公投以”反对”告终。苏格兰为何寻求独立？过去数百年间哪些国家曾脱离英国？苏格兰国兽独角兽背后又有哪些有趣故事？本文围绕这场公投，从历史、地理与文化三个角度梳理新闻背后的深层脉络。

A new initiative will allow astronomers to search a million stars for intelligent life. With tens of billions of stars in the Milky Way, might we finally win the numbers game?

The synthesis between the civil rights movement and the gay rights movement reminds us to that the fight for equality is playing out on multiple fronts simultaneously. To be truly victorious in this struggle, we can’t narrowly focus on our own battles. Instead, let’s focus on promoting equality and justice for all.

The pandemic has shown that now — and more than ever — we need to move to a model of work that protects employees from stress and burnout. The good news: The four-day week can be great for businesses and for the planet, says consultant Alex Soojung-Kim Pang