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.

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.
Democracy is happening like never before, and it's exploiting our deepest fears and failures.
Our ape ancestors might give us insight into the GOP frontrunner's sustained dominance.
A complete refusal to accept basic facts has made a religion of our gun obsession.
Alan Watts recognized that money was only an abstract idea compared to actual wealth. Will we ever learn the same?