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Link The Roots of Religion: Myth, Play and Human…
Robert Bellah, one of America's most distinguished sociologists, caps off his luminous academic career with "Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age" , a near 800-page…

October 19 2011, 3:17am | Comments
Link Steven Pinker on the History and decline (and…
Some of the evidence has been under our nose all along. Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler. Cruelty as entertainment,…

September 20 2011, 3:05am | Comments
Flickr Morning coffee

August 9 2011, 10:15am | Comments
Link Heaven for Atheists
It’s human nature, I suppose, to want to survive, to resist succumbing to the same fate all living things do. It’s the reason we write books, create art, have children—we’re…

July 4 2011, 9:01am | Comments
Link Myths of a Near Future: Simon Sellars, Bruce…
Two years ago, I appeared on a panel, ‘Myths of a Near Future’, with writer Bruce Sterling and V. Vale of RE/Search Publications to discuss the work of J.G. Ballard.…

November 15 2010, 3:31am | Comments
Link The Myth of Separate Magisteria
By now, nearly everyone with a passing interest in science or religion is familiar with Stephen Jay Gould’s description of the two disciplines as “non-overlapping magisteria” with separate domains —…

November 10 2010, 6:17am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's…

September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments
Findings The Ship Argo

May 9 2010, 12:37pm | Comments
Link The 'Basic' Plots in Literature
Q: I’ve heard there are only 7 (or 5, 20, 36…) basic plots (or themes) in all of literature. What are they? A: People often say that there are only…

March 9 2010, 4:35pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

February 21 2010, 10:25pm | Comments
Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are…

January 8 2010, 10:51am | Comments
Portfolio Simulating Kim Jong Il

November 6 2009, 10:28am | Comments
Link Monsters and the Moral Imagination
Monsters are on the rise. People can't seem to get enough of vampires lately, and zombies have a new lease on life. This year and next we have the release…

October 27 2009, 12:01pm | Comments
Link Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man
Directed by Philippe Molins - Although honors came late in life to Jorge Luis Borges, his unique worldview had begun to emerge even as a child. This program examines the…

August 6 2009, 1:23pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription

July 12 2009, 10:35pm | Comments
Link Atlas Obscura
Welcome to the Atlas Obscura, a compendium of this age's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica. The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloguing all of the singular,…

June 16 2009, 3:14pm | Comments
Portfolio Seeing Centaurs

June 14 2009, 2:50pm | Comments
Link 'On the Origin of Stories,' 'Finding Our Tongues,'…
A few years ago Tufts philosopher Daniel Dennett opined that the idea of natural selection - proposed 150 years ago in Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" - was…

June 3 2009, 12:01pm | Comments

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