On Pi Day, Puzzling Over the Most Famous Transcendental Number
Depending on how you look at it, Pi Day is a festival of nerds, a…
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The Problem with Pew’s Science & Religion Poll
Yes, there are bad questions.
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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 Religious Roots of American Environmentalism
What do the Mad Max franchise, protests of the Keystone pipeline, and the idolization of…
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The Cubit Vs. “New Age Colbert,” JP Sears
Cubit co-editor Andrew Aghapour collaborates with Ultra-Spiritual JP Sears on his latest video to discuss science, religion, and why journalists will be replaced by robots.
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Capricology: Big Ideas, Lack of Humanity
As the half-season closes on this sci-fi epic, we take inventory on where the show has gone, and gone wrong. Among the robots, avatars, and people who love them, there are a lot of big ideas, but not enough story.
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Capricology: A Robot is Being Tortured
Is it the inhumanity of the machines that will prove to be the tragic pivot in this science fiction world, or will it the inhumanity of the humans? Again we find ourselves asking: where does human consciousness begin?
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Capricology: Divine Madness
This week’s episode asks big questions about psychology and religion, and reminds us that a dog is a robot’s best friend.
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Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred
Welcome to the first installment of our ongoing coverage of television’s latest contribution to the cultural intersection of science and religion, with bonus themes to include: the body, artificial intelligence, paganism, original sin, immigration, and race. Join Diane Winston, Anthea Butler, Salman Hameed, and Henry Jenkins every week as they delve into deep exegesis of Caprica.
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Capricology: Tattoos, Blood, Cyber-Dating
In the ever more dystopian world of Syfy Channel’s Caprica, teenage girls inhabit robot bodies, or live eternally without bodies at all, human bodies are marked by memories, and all the while there is blood flowing in the virtual streets.
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