Delillo and Doctor Strange: Orientalist Fantasy is Alive and Well
“Open your mind. Change your reality.” These are the twin phrases that flash across the…
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Smelling the Sacred: Better (Lived) Religion Through Chemistry
An article published in the journal Scientific Reports this month provides evidence that Smell-O-Vision may…
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How Herbalife’s Gospel of Health and Wealth Fuels a Billion-Dollar Deception
If Whole Foods and Joel Osteen got together and had a child, it would probably…
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Fascinating History of Search for “Lost White Tribe” Sheds Light on Construction of Race
Speaking broadly, white supremacist ideas rest on two premises. One is about power. The other…
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Last week, The Cubit published an interview with Chade-Meng Tan, best known for his work…
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How Not to Oppose the National Day of Prayer
Today is the National Day of Prayer in the United States, an annual day of…
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“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan
If the words “corporate” and “mindfulness” no longer sound strange together, it’s partly because of the career of Chade-Meng Tan. A…
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Polygamy, Genius, and the Origin of Religion
Best-selling psychologist David P. Barash has religion all figured out: God the Father is simply the ultimate alpha male.
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Zen and the Art of Zombie Killing: A Buddhist Anti-Tech Manifesto
Why the current cultural fetish for zombies? In 2014’s Hooked, Nir Eyal ventures a guess: “Perhaps…
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Satanic Temple Protests Pseudoscientific Therapies for Satanic Abuse and Witchcraft
If you happened to walk past San Francisco’s Parc 55 hotel this past weekend, you…
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