Religion
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Buddhism and the Brain
March 09, 2011
Many of Buddhism’s core tenets significantly overlap with findings from modern neurology and neuroscience. So how did Buddhism come close to getting the brain right?
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Divided Minds, Specious Souls
September 21, 2010
The experience of a unified mind and the possibility of an everlasting soul are connected. And there is scant evidence to support the existence of either.
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Science and/or Faith
July 06, 2010
Should a "scientific" meeting attempt to address questions of faith? If so, what's the best way to do it?
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Why Do We Believe?
March 10, 2010
Science is developing new insights into how religious beliefs may have evolved, but often the research brings up more questions than it answers.
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The New Ambassadors of Science
July 17, 2009
Francis Collins and Regina Benjamin are tapped, SpaceX races NASA into orbit, a Pew Poll on the public perception of science, and Microsoft releases Feynman lectures.
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Don’t Mess With Textbooks
May 20, 2009
Science education faced setbacks at the Texas Board of Education hearings in March. An inside look at the politicians, teachers, and textbook publishers who are fighting back.
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April Book Picks
April 01, 2009
New works on the human cost of fear, the paradigm-shifting astronomer Edwin Hubble, and the comic failings of religious fundamentalists.
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The Multiverse Problem
March 30, 2009
Is theoretical physics becoming the next battleground in the culture wars? Not according to some theologians and scientists.
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Darwin and the Clergyman
February 12, 2009
Letters between Charles Darwin and the vicar of Downe document a close friendship, and a surprising mutual interest in preserving the church.
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Harun Yahya’s Dark Arts
December 16, 2008
One-on-one with the Turkish creationist who uses bad science and bizarre art to spread his vision of a troubled world.
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Agnostic Machinery
October 29, 2008
Bill Maher's film Religulous hoped to use scientists to paint religion as a neurological disorder, but the scientists had a different idea.
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PZ Myers on Richard Dawkins
October 22, 2006
Richard Dawkins hasn't stopped his tirade against religion and its "dangerous nonsense"—he's fighting smarter. Has Darwin's rottweiler been house-trained?
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The Dover Monkey Trial
October 01, 2005
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Ideas
I Tried Almost Everything Else
John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and “genomic origamist,” on why we should dumpster-dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle-distance runner.
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Ideas
Going, Going, Gone
The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
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Ideas
Earth-like Planets Aren’t Rare
Renowned planetary scientist James Kasting on the odds of finding another Earth-like planet and the power of science fiction.
