Olympic Medal Count Normalized for Population
It looks a lot different from the rankings you’ve seen on TV.
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H-: Millennialism at the Singularity: Reflections on Metaphors, Meanings, and the Limits of Exponential Logic
Imagine billions of nanobots, tiny computerized machines smaller than your red blood cells, travelling through your body, inserted in your brain, all communicating internally with each other and externally with machines outside of your body. These nanobots could repair damaged cells in your body, destroy cancer cells, eliminate pathogens, provide optimum nutrition, eliminate unhealthy chemicals,…
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The Sacred Side of Death
Everything we value is possible only because of death. The ancients couldn’t have known this truth revealed by science. We can no longer afford to remain ignorant of it; the cost is too high.
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Big History Gets Bigger
A report on the inaugural meeting of the International Big History Association in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Darwin Road Leads to Hell in Michigan
En route to the International Big History Association conference in Grand Rapids, I made a pilgrimage to Hell—a small town northwest of Ann Arbor.
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A Scientific Honoring of Death
Science not only increases our knowledge, it also deepens our intimacy with reality. Nowhere is this more evident than in how an evidential worldview helps us honor—indeed, celebrate—the role of death at all scales of the cosmos.
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The Spanish Empire: Adaptive Animals in the Natural World
Accepting our status as a highly reflective species of animal may be an entry point to understanding the ripples of natural patterns that define our cultures’ proclivities to compete and cooperate.
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Breaking the Spell of Solidity
Excerpted from Evolutionaries: Unlocking the Spiritual and Cultural Potential of Science’s Greatest Idea: We’ve all heard about fossils and fruit flies, Darwin and Dawkins. But today, the idea of evolution—the basic notion of process, change, and development over time—is affecting much more than biology. It is affecting everything, from our perceptions of politics, economics, psychology,…
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TEDx: Why We Struggle
Faith traditions offer conflicting beliefs about our inner nature and challenges. Fortunately, a knowledge-based view is emerging that offers fresh and realistic hope for improving the quality of our lives and relationships.
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Gender and Religion in Our Century
Religions have supported and promoted gender inequality. But such matters are now being intensely reconsidered, and women are fighting back.
