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2022-08-31T15:54:58-04:00

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Why Rites of Passage Are Painful

Last updated on: August 31, 2022 at 3:54 pm By Connor Wood

At the podcast "How God Works," I discuss the worldwide phenomenon of painful adolescent rites of passage with psychologist David DeSteno. Read more

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2022-08-31T16:01:26-04:00

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So Long, Pax Americana

Last updated on: August 31, 2022 at 4:01 pm By Connor Wood

War has returned to Europe after a long, dreamy sabbatical. Russia’s troops and tanks are advancing toward Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine and the Ur-heimat of Slavic Christendom. Apartment buildings are burning; middle-class inhabitants are refugees, homeless, or — in too many cases — dead; and newspaper headlines last Thursday simply said “War in Europe” as if it were 1939. All of this supports that sinking feeling I got in early January that 2022 wasn’t going to herald any return... Read more

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2022-08-31T15:55:42-04:00

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More Signal, Less Noise

Last updated on: August 31, 2022 at 3:55 pm By Connor Wood

A while back, I left formal academia. In the post where I announced that decision, I promised that I’d start writing here more frequently again, since I’d be free from the crushing pressure to self-censor that I’d been feeling as a professional academic. Obviously, that hasn’t happened. For a variety of reasons, the pressure to self-censor is still on. More importantly, I’ve taken a step back from blogging and writing in order to get my head on straight in a... Read more

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2022-08-31T16:02:13-04:00

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The Natural History of Music

Last updated on: August 31, 2022 at 4:02 pm By Connor Wood

I’m teaching a course on the evolution of music through Scholarium in January and February. Or, more accurately, I’m teaching about the origins of human rhythm — our unique ability to “keep together in time.” Have you ever seen a group of dogs pounding their paws in rhythm on the pavement, jamming out together? No, because they lack the kind of brain you need to be able move your body in time to an audio rhythm. Why would humans have these... Read more

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2022-08-31T16:02:48-04:00

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Geophysicist Dorian Abbot Loses MIT Lecture Thanks to Twitter Mob

Last updated on: August 31, 2022 at 4:02 pm By Connor Wood

University of Chicago geophysicist Dorian Abbot was disinvited from giving a lecture on exoplanets at MIT because of his outspoken opinions about how universities should prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and hiring — opinions that 74% of Americans and a majority of all races agree with. The future of civil society and higher education in the United States is in peril. Read more

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2021-08-31T15:52:46-04:00

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Faith and the Evolutionary Predicament

Last updated on: August 31, 2021 at 3:52 pm By Connor Wood

The "scientific image" of humans offered by evolutionary biology is cold, impersonal, alienating…and objective. But reality is more than objectivity. Read more

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2021-07-31T16:54:44-04:00

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The Catholic Latin Mass is a Strong Credibility-Enhancing Display

Last updated on: July 31, 2021 at 4:54 pm By Connor Wood

Pope Francis recently restricted the Catholic Tridentine Latin mass. The resulting firestorm of controversy may help illuminate why so many people don’t believe what their churches teach. Read more

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2021-06-14T16:51:37-04:00

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Music and Dance in Human Evolution

Last updated on: June 14, 2021 at 4:51 pm By Connor Wood

Humans everywhere play music and dance. But other animals don't — so where did these unique abilities come from? New research provides some suggestions. Read more

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2021-05-23T16:58:34-04:00

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The Myth of the Egalitarian Noble Savage

Last updated on: May 23, 2021 at 4:58 pm By Connor Wood

Are hunter-gatherer societies really the original egalitarian society? One anthropologist argues against the myth of the leaderless noble savage. Read more

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2021-05-04T14:23:13-04:00

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The Joys and Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research

Last updated on: May 4, 2021 at 2:23 pm By Connor Wood

Academia can be a fiercely jealous environment — jealous, that is, of the boundaries between disciplines. Rather than “scientists,” you’ll find physicists and oceanographers, biologists and chemists, neuroscientists and psychologists, all tucked away in their own, sometimes feuding departments. But even these categories are too broad. There are social cognitive neuroscientists and neuroimaging methodologists, theoretical evolutionary biologists and cell biologists, cognitive psychologists and developmental psychologists. Each speciality within a given field has its own journals, its own conferences. Interdisciplinary contact... Read more

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