The debate over how well ritual killings maintained social order.
Did Human Sacrifice Help Form Societies?
|Mar 8, 2018
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Questions of Expansion
|Mar 8, 2018
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Measuring growth of the universe reveals a mystery.
Heredity Beyond the Gene
|Mar 8, 2018
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What you pass on to your kids isn’t always in your genetic code.
Spiritual, but Not Religious
|Mar 7, 2018
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New research indicates that “spiritual” Americans are more satisfied with life.
Is Death Still Frightening if You Believe the Self Is an Illusion?
|Mar 7, 2018
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An astonishing study of Tibetan Buddhists.
I and Thou
|Mar 7, 2018
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When we encounter another individual truly as a person, not as an object for use, we become fully human: Martin Buber.
Physicists Find a Way to See the ‘Grin’ of Quantum Gravity
|Mar 7, 2018
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A recently proposed experiment would confirm that gravity is a quantum force.
Gene Editing Is Now Precise Enough to Modify a Single Letter of DNA
|Mar 7, 2018
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MhAX uses CRISPR and a DNA repair system to alter a single DNA base in the human genome.
Robert Sapolsky: The Science of Temptation
|Mar 7, 2018
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Stanford prof of biology & neurology explains why you can (or can’t) resist.
Are Religion and Science in Conflict?
|Mar 7, 2018
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Elaine Howard Ecklund, who studies religious people’s perceptions of science, discusses her findings.