Derek Beres

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.

Silicon Valley might just be missing the most important aspect of being human: the ability to feel.
Secular Web compiles a number of publications in atheism, nontheism, and science over the last few centuries.
New research on the hypothalamus shows that body heat matters.
A new Pew Research study shows how widely varied belief in what God, or a higher power, actually is.
Fasting is trending, yet it's also been prescribed for thousands of years. Does the science on the Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) hold up?
We've always used media as a means of framing reality. How will this affect our relationship with VR?
You are who you are because of your environment. What happens in a virtual world in an environment created by another mind?