Fact-Checking Ben Carson’s Pyramid-ism Misses the Point
Archaeologists say that the pyramids were used to store dead pharaohs. Ben Carson thinks that…
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Citizen Speech in an Age of Data: Or, Why I’m Transcribing My Tweets Into Cuneiform
Social media has made possible a new global distribution of cognitive ephemera. We are tweeting 6,000…
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The Problem with Pew’s Science & Religion Poll
Yes, there are bad questions.
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Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend
A review of Vanessa Ogle’s “Global Transformation of Time”
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“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate
Presidential candidates currently fall into two camps. In the first, you have about 20 Republican…
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The Fragility of Our Reality: A Conversation with the Brain Behind PBS Miniseries on Neuroscience
When you get down to it, neuroscience is just brains studying brains. One upshot of…
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Lying About Our Religion, And Other Problems With Polling
A review of Robert Wuthnow’s “Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation’s Faith.”
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If You Liked The Martian You’ll Love These 3 Sci-Fi Shorts
Ridley Scott’s The Martian just had a massive $55 million opening weekend. Matt Damon stars…
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Where Polls and Surveys Fall Short: A Conversation with Robert Wuthnow on “Inventing American Religion”
It’s primary season in America, that special time when we come together as a nation…
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Are You There God? It’s Us, Googling
What we search for may be instructive, but what we turn up may be just as important.
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