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Sep 27

The Jane Goodalls: Women in Science Defying the Odds

ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | In the last forty years, Jane Goodall has become a saint of modern environmentalism, an unwavering voice calling. . .

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Sep 13

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Prohibited Speech: Colonialism, Blasphemy Laws, and Communal Violence

ARVIND-PAL S. MANDAIR | Through his blending of 1990s hip-hop and Punjabi folk music, Moose Wala mounted searing political critiques of...

Sep 13

Review

There Will Be Music Despite Everything

STEVEN E. ASCHHEIM | Time’s Echo is about the painful but also potentially liberating interactions between culture and catastrophe.

Sep 13

Review

Redeemable Humanity

DANIEL WOOLF | Apart from the stories she tells, Bakewell builds a case for remembering—even in the shadow of Auschwitz, Rwanda, 9/11. . .

Imperial Systems and Settler Secularism in India and the United States

Sep 27

Forum

Imperial Systems and Settler Secularism in India and the United States

TISA WENGER | Most blasphemers were freethinkers who positioned themselves as a vanguard for the “civilized” virtues of reason and freedom..

The Spirit of '76: A Jewish Perspective on the American Revolution

Sep 27

Review

The Spirit of '76: A Jewish Perspective on the American Revolution

MICHAEL HOBERMAN | The new nation that early American Jews helped to create wasn’t the fulfillment of a preexisting ideal or a club . . .

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Sep 27

Meanings of Science

The Jane Goodalls: Women in Science Defying the Odds

ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | In the last forty years, Jane Goodall has become a saint of modern environmentalism, an unwavering voice calling. . .

Biology, the Brain, and the Meaning of Life with Philip Ball

Jun 4

Meanings of Science

Biology, the Brain, and the Meaning of Life with Philip Ball

PHILIP BALL | There’s one thing that distinguishes living matter from nonliving matter, it is this notion of agency.

Biology, the Brain, and the Meanings of Life: Philip Ball in Conversation with Iain McGilchrist

May 10

Meanings of Science

Biology, the Brain, and the Meanings of Life: Philip Ball in Conversation with Iain McGilchrist

A profound but quiet transformation in biology is changing the way we think about life.

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Sep 13

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A Forum on Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India

Slandering the Sacred by J. Barton Scott is a landmark study in the field of religion and South Asia. . .

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Sep 27

Review

The Spirit of '76: A Jewish Perspective on the American Revolution

MICHAEL HOBERMAN | The new nation that early American Jews helped to create wasn’t the fulfillment of a preexisting ideal or a club . . .

Sep 13

Review

There Will Be Music Despite Everything

STEVEN E. ASCHHEIM | Time’s Echo is about the painful but also potentially liberating interactions between culture and catastrophe.

Sep 13

Review

Redeemable Humanity

DANIEL WOOLF | Apart from the stories she tells, Bakewell builds a case for remembering—even in the shadow of Auschwitz, Rwanda, 9/11. . .

Apocalypse Now: The Revolt Against Auto-Genocide

Jun 22

Review

Apocalypse Now: The Revolt Against Auto-Genocide

SAMUEL LONCAR | Anthropocene antihumanism and transhumanism seek the end of humanity. They are auto-genocidal philosophies. . .

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Celebrating 7 Years of Our Human-Centered Vision

Jun 21

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Celebrating 7 Years of Our Human-Centered Vision

Summer 2024 | Celebrating 7 years of our human-centered vision.

Jun 7

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Aumcoming: Meditations on a Sound

AMIT MAJMUDAR | Just as "Once upon a time" primes the mind to receive a fairy tale, Aum primes the mind to receive transcendence and peace.

Politics and the Plague in Medieval Persia: A Non-Western Perspective of Pandemic History

Mar 15

Essay

Politics and the Plague in Medieval Persia: A Non-Western Perspective of Pandemic History

SARA AMERI MAHABADI | What we witnessed during COVID is not entirely new. Blaming others, attempting to dismantle the status quo, or...

Mar 1

Essay

Sports in Jewish Culture

IRA GLICK & NEIL EISENBERG | The Jewish problem with athletics literally arose in the locker room.

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The Paradigm Shift: A New Vision of Science and Religion with Peter Harrison

Nov 10, 2023

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The Paradigm Shift: A New Vision of Science and Religion with Peter Harrison

PETER HARRISON | So there’s a kind of imperialistic assumption about the superiority of the intellectual apparatus that we’re operating . .

NASA’s Psyche Mission: Lindy Elkins-Tanton in Conversation with Philip Ball

Oct 27, 2023

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NASA’s Psyche Mission: Lindy Elkins-Tanton in Conversation with Philip Ball

Their conversation is lively and illuminating as they discuss the importance of teamwork for the NASA launch. . .

Mar 16, 2023

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From Nuclear Radiology to The Bhagavad Gita: An Interview with Amit Majmudar

AMIT MAJMUDAR | So anyone can approach the Gita without feeling their particular religious background or faith affiliation is under attack.

Science and the Healing of the World: A Conversation with Tom McLeish, Part Two

Feb 16, 2023

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Science and the Healing of the World: A Conversation with Tom McLeish, Part Two

TOM McLEISH | Science is more about questions than answers, and that the critical imaginative move in science is to conceive of the creative

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