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Atoms and the Miracle of Life
An excerpt from Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" animated and narrated.
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Baroque Consilience: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Colonial Latin America’s great feminist poet, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, combined images of transcendence with the immanence...
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Can We Be Awe-Inspired without Thinking Hierarchically?
We are complex animals with complex, multifaceted thought processes. The Darwinian approach to religion is only beginning to...
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The Alpha Factor and Religion
The alpha factor is a symbolic principle of organization often attached to religious mapping, but it is one with...
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Seeking Hope in the Far Future
In "The Far Future Universe," George Ellis poses an overarching question: "Will human life and all intelligence inevitably come...
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The Feast of the Elements
Might it be our time in history to begin honoring the birth of the elements?
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Multiplying NonZero: Review of Robert Wright’s “Nonzero”
In day-to-day life, there all kinds of non-zero-sum games that people play. Robert Wright sees this as "the secret...
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Review of Robert Wright’s “Nonzero”
Although it is a well-written book and Robert Wright is a clever journalist with a bent for spinning evolutionary...
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
Does the history of our species show any evidence of higher purpose?