CERN: Where Particle Physics Collides with Human Sacrifice (Apparently)
Almost no one was fooled last week when footage surfaced of what appeared to be…
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Free Will, Fate and FiveThirtyEight: The Theology of Election Polls
Trump’s chances just went down by 4.6%! A look at prophecy as spectator sport.
Read MoreAccused of Anti-Semitism, Trump Aide Makes Ancestry Appeal
Anti-Semitism lurks around the Trump campaign, and every week seems to bring a new not-necessarily-a-scandal-but-it-sure-sounds-fishy…
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Come Hell or High Water: How the Melodrama of Disaster Leaves Us Vulnerable
Disaster has a clarifying glamour. It promises to highlight virtue and reveal iniquity. Therein lies the problem.
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Holding Out for a Hero: New ID Book Aims to Save You From Despair of Evolution
What is remarkable is not even how many times Axe repeats the same argument, but how many times this same argument has been repeated by intelligent design (ID) proponents before him.
Read MorePope’s Comments on “Ideological Colonization” of Gender Signal Rupture With Scientific Community
Late last month, two global authorities signaled their positions on gender, sex, and the rights of…
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The Case for Treating Near-Death Experiences Like Acid Trips
Heavenly jaunts aren’t the only kind of near-death experience.
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What Penis Theft Tells Us About Belief, Culture, and Our Brains
An early scene in Frank Bures’s The Geography of Madness describes the author wandering through…
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Green Candidate Jill Stein Maintains Anti-Vaxxer Cred
Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presumptive presidential candidate, would like you to know that she…
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Trump’s Magical Appeal: A Dated Anthropologist Offers Clues
There’s a new cottage industry devoted to explanations of the quasi-mystical appeal of Donald Trump….
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