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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Examining the intersections of science, religion, technology, and ethics.
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.
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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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The Shared Fantasy of Redemptive Violence Between ISIS and the Islamophobic Right
What led Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel to rent a refrigerated truck, arm himself with a few…
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Sit Down and Shut Up: Pulling Mindfulness Up By Its (Buddhist) Roots
“Wisdom 2.0?” meditation teacher Kenneth Folk has famously pondered. “That’s a networking opportunity with a…
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Should NASA Have Given $1.1 Million to a Theology Institute?
In 2014, NASA gave $1.1 million to the Center of Theological Inquiry, an independent institution…
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