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Bookmark Theology for atheists
Theology lets us talk about deep and irrational urges. This is seen by some atheists as weakness. But maybe it's a strength as well James Wood, a writer who himself has…

January 8 2010, 2:29am | Comments
Bookmark When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"?
Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest…

December 23 2009, 2:24am | Comments
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November 20 2009, 3:46am | Comments
Bookmark The Future of Reading
The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading for…

November 3 2009, 9:30am | Comments
Bookmark The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English
In depicting the emergence of the world’s languages as a curse of gibberish, the biblical tale of the Tower of Babel makes us moderns smile. Yet, considering the headache that 6,000…

November 1 2009, 3:32am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments
Bookmark An Interview with W. Brian Arthur
Technology so pervades our culture that it's sobering to consider how poorly we understand it. How do new tools and techniques arise? What principles guide their evolution? And how does their…

October 4 2009, 4:26pm | Comments
Bookmark Must science declare a holy war on religion?
This fall, evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins -- most recently famous for his public exhortation to atheism, "The God Delusion" -- returns to writing about science. Dawkins' new book,…

September 17 2009, 2:32am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments
Bookmark 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 life…

August 6 2009, 1:23pm | Comments
Bookmark Is Star Trek A Religion?
Star Trek has long been described as a cult phenomenon…but is it an actual cult? Some anthropologists think so. Following the example of anthropologist Margaret Mead, they lived among the natives…

July 30 2009, 1:22pm | Comments
Bookmark Ant mega-colony takes over world
A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related…

July 2 2009, 9:10am | Comments
Metafilter Behind the Mask - Michael Jackson's rarest recording? Michael Jackson penned and recorded lots of songs, many of which remain unreleased. Perhaps the most infamous, and rarest recording, is his version of Behind the Mask. Legend has it that upon hearing Yellow Magic Orchestra's original track, somewhen around 1979, Quincy Jones…

July 1 2009, 11:40am | Comments
Bookmark 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, eccentric,…

June 16 2009, 3:14pm | Comments
Bookmark Is There a Better Word for Doom?
Six experts discuss the merits of framing climate change, the language that troubles them, and the inherent bias of any chosen word. In a report to be released the first week…

May 27 2009, 5:19pm | Comments
Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 2: New territories and cultures of the…
The panel New territories and cultures of the digital looked at the geographical shift that media culture currently undergoes. Europe, North America and Japan used to be at the forefront of…

May 20 2009, 9:24am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments
Bookmark Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever Know It All |…
Deep in the deluge of knowledge that poured forth from science in the 20th century were found ironclad limits on what we can know. Werner Heisenberg discovered that improved precision regarding,…

March 17 2009, 9:35am | Comments
Metafilter A nation of nonbelievers "The government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian Religion." ~ George Washington / "I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature." ~ Thomas Jefferson / "The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my religion." ~…

January 20 2009, 11:40am | Comments
Wikipedia Henry Darger | Wikipedia Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. (April 12(?), 1892–April 13, 1973) was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a janitor in Chicago, Illinois.[1] He has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls,…

January 6 2009, 5:41am | Comments
Wikipedia John Frum - Wikipedia John Frum (or Jon Frum; John From) is a figure associated with cargo cults on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. He is depicted as an American World War II serviceman, who will bring wealth and prosperity to the people if they follow…

January 20 2008, 3:29pm | Comments
Wikipedia Archetype - Wikipedia An archetype is a generic, idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied, patterned, or emulated. In psychology, an archetype is a model of a person, personality, or behavior. This article is about person

October 31 2007, 10:17am | Comments

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