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Patrick McNamara et al in Nature: Around 85% of the global population identifies as religious. Decades of work in the social sciences have found that religious or spiritual beliefs and practices
Continue readingNeuroscientists Must Not be Afraid to Study Religion
The following is a brief segment of a lecture Alan Watts gave on The Psychedelic Experience: In a way, all consciousness-expanding drugs have something to do with death. Why? Because
How can one ever begin at the end?—Death is regeneration at the end Waiz lives piety, prays five times a dayHe knows not the joys of sin at the end
Continue readingSaturday Poem: ‘At the End’ by Maaz Bin Bilal
“From studying 50-plus civil wars and revolutions, it became clear that the single most reliable leading indicator of civil war or revolution is bankrupt government finances combined with big wealth
Emma Bryce at Anthropocene: This is more than just another AI gimmick, the University of Bonn researchers say: their new tool could help guide farmers on how to raise crops
Hannah Critchlow in The Guardian: Since the sequencing of the human genome in 2003, genetics has become one of the key frameworks for how we all think about ourselves. From fretting
Continue readingCan You Inherit Memories From Your Ancestors?
Elise Cutts at Quanta: We learn in grade school that water freezes at zero degrees Celsius, but that’s seldom true. In clouds, scientists have found supercooled water droplets as chilly
Susan Hough at Asterisk: The reality is that earthquake prediction is hard. “Neither the USGS nor any other scientists have ever predicted a major earthquake,” reads the official statement on
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A relatively small deal — by Microsoft’s standards, anyway — is leading to big geopolitical ripples this morning. The tech giant is investing $1.5 billion in G42, an Emirati artificial
Editorial cartoons on war in Gaza from news organizations. Here are six of them selected by despardes.com. Source: The Daily Herald, The Week, Chappatte in Le Temps (Switzerland), and The
Originally from Lahore, Ustad Zafar Pahalwan moved to London in the 90s and put his cooking skills to use. by Atiqa Rehman at Dawn: On any given evening in the