In his article "What Makes Us Human? Doing Pointless Things for Fun," Matthew Harris shares a profound learning about the nature of conscious beings. "I was once in the south-eastern Sahara, in ...

Humanity has produced some truly elite ideas. The snooze button, read receipts, and trash bags with drawstrings that actually close. Civilizational wins. Whoever invented these absolutely understood ...

Do you do anything habitually that is, in whole or in part, pointless? Mrs hux has this habit that makes no sense at all: after using the toilet, she turns the mixer tap to hot and washes her hands ...