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The Universe Between Atheism and Fundamentalism
Between the two extremes, there is a third possibility: that all religions are partly true.
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Science as the Art of “Ought Management”
The core insight behind science goes something like this: To get what you want, set aside what you want...
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Forest for the Trees
We want to pay attention to what’s relevant and not what’s irrelevant. Irrelevant big-picture factors can distract us from...
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Semiotics: What It Means, and What It Means for You
Since meaning means a whole lot to us, semiotics should too, and yet most of us have never heard...
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The Evolution of Personality
Examining four animal groups with high relative brain size, and finding that they have a variety of qualities in...
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Shared Reality Based on Science
The new cosmos is everyone’s home, its origin story is everyone’s story, and sharing the unique place of intelligent...
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Hidden Cost to Religion of Climate Change Denial
The repetition of disasters may numb us and make compassion a sentiment whose evolutionary cost becomes too high. If...
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Mirror Mortals
We see death coming and it doesn’t look good. We cope by committing to culturally defined immortality campaigns, which...
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Soulnerd: The Third Spiritual Option
Spirituality is one’s overall strategy for coping with the challenge of investing, knowing that one must eventually divest. Spirituality...
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History as Science
Exploring Big History requires that we systematically collect and analyze information about the past from an evolutionary and global...