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March 2019

March 08, 2019

A Big Weekend in Boston

Religion is a complicated nut to crack. It encompasses some of the most private and...

January 2019

January 23, 2019

What Is Postmodernism? And Why Does It Matter for Science?

We're living in a post-truth era. Is postmodernism to blame, as famous philosopher Daniel Dennett...

December 2018

December 11, 2018

Measuring the Evolution Gap between the Humanities and the Sciences

According to a recent research report, scholars in the humanities and the hard social sciences...

November 2018

November 29, 2018

Why Postmodernism and Science Can’t Stand Each Other

I’m freshly back from Denver, where the annual conference of the American Academy of Religion...

March 2018

March 15, 2018

How Religion and Science Are Like Different Cultures

I have a new article up at Orbiter Magazine about the relationship between religion and...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

Why I Left the Humanities for the Sciences

I didn’t start out as a scientist. As an undergraduate, I majored in English,...

August 2017

August 15, 2017

Science Is Classist. Here’s a Solution

Science is an incredible thing. But classism and prejudice against working-class people are endemic in...

August 03, 2017

Science and democracy go hand-in-hand – and democracy is in danger

Science and democracy are mutually entwined. Both require independent thought and reasoned consensus. When democracy...

May 2017

May 22, 2017

Science and religion really are in conflict, people

The culture of science breaks ties with the past, while religion cherishes them. So for...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

Is willpower really a finite resource?

Publication bias is rampant in psychology. Has it led us astray with one of the...

July 2014

July 14, 2014

The Wave of the Future: Experimental Religious Studies

Ted Slingerland's work at UBC-Vancouver shows that the scientific study of religion has undergone a...

November 2013

November 11, 2013

What’s the Point of the Humanities? A Response to Pinker and Wieseltier

Science is sexy, confident, and universally adored—the star quarterback of our intellectual culture. But the...

November 28, 2012

Meditation may enhance introspective accuracy

New research from the University of British Columbia shows that certain styles of meditation may...

November 16, 2012

Fraud may be rampant in science

Medical experts Ferric Fanga, (University of Washington School of Medicine), R. Steenc (Medical Communications Consultants),...

February 2012

February 16, 2012

Too much science, too little religion: addressing reductionism

Nicholas C. DiDonato Religion is just a by-product of human evolution. Religion is just a...