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Derek Beres
Derek Beres is a freelance writer. Based in Portland, Oregon, he has served in senior editorial positions at a number of tech companies and has years of experience in health, science, and music writing. He is the co-host of the Conspirituality podcast and co-author of Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracies Became a Health Threat.
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Refusing to allow terminally ill patients the right to end their life is a cruel and inhumane relic of religious thinking.
Hallucinations are a feature of our brain's hardware. Could religious visions be accounted for by this neurological phenomenon?
When Francis Bellamy penned our pledge in 1892, his focus was really on the 'liberty and justice for all' part.
Ra Paulette spent 20 years carving caves into soapstone mountains. His passion for the transcendent brings us back to Earth.
Understanding how to become more resilient could rely on a simple linguistic shift.
Response to the passing of Antonin Scalia has been truly bipartisan: No one's mourning and everyone's demanding.
We often think of willpower as mentally forging ahead. But to achieve such a mental state, our brain needs proper nourishment.