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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Examining the intersections of science, religion, technology, and ethics.
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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Why Scientists Should Be Agnostic: Or, Why Lawrence Krauss Is Still a Windbag
A few months ago, one of us (okay, Andrew), referred to the esteemed physicist and…
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Can You Become Un-Autistic?
You could read this as a straightforward narrative of medical recovery. Or you could read…
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Is It OK To Use a Cellphone in Church? Pew Surveys the New Etiquette
The Pew Research Center has pubished a new report on cellphone etiquette. If you’ve ever wondered whether…
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Why Science Needs “Neurodiversity,” Autism Included
New York Times science columnist George Johnson had the epistemological grumps last week, about what…
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The Problem with AMC’s Sci-Fi Hit Humans
The following essay contains some minor spoilers. – eds. Imagine a world where robots look,…
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“As Orthodox As They Come”: A Backstage Conversation With Rob Bell
Rob Bell is on the move. In 1998, as a 28-year-old evangelical pastor in Michigan,…
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The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism
In The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, the Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo offers…
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