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Zoology and Religion: The Work of Alister Hardy
The Human Context Of Alister Hardy’s Thought Professor Sir Alister Clavering Hardy FRS (1896-1985) was Head of the Zoology...
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Time Regained
James Gleick reviews Lee Smolin's new book "Time Reborn" in the New York Review of Books.
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Giant band of galactic gas likely has dual origin
An enormous ribbon of gas that threads through the thinner gas of the Milky Way’s halo is the result...
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When Will AI Be Created?
Human-level AI (HLAI) appears to be the topic of the week. Kevin Drum at Mother Jones thinks AIs will...
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To Find Meaning in a Secular Age, Stop Searching
In Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, two friends, Vladimir and Estragon, endlessly wait by a tree in the moonlight...
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Science and Religion Can’t Be Reconciled
A few recent events, including the launch of Nautilus and this interesting thread on Brian Leiter’s blog, have brought...
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An Exploding Star, A Grain of Sand, and an Origin Story
Humans have created some pretty ingenious myths to explain the world around us: the sun and the moon chase...
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David Foster Wallace – “This is Water”
Metanexus is happy to plug the late David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Commencement Speech at Kenyon College in this season...
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I Am Not This Body
Every time I look at my face in a magnified mirror in a hotel bathroom, I jump back in...
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We Need to Think Thousands of Years Ahead
How can we think 100 years ahead, and is that enough? Well, it’s not enough, but it’s a fantastic...