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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
For decades people have arranged to freeze their bodies after death, dreaming of resurrection by advanced future medicine. Many met a fate far grislier than death.
Long before Christopher and Magellan, ancient explorers voyaged into the unknown and brought home extraordinary tales.
If Rome was not built in a day, why do you think you can be?
Just as there are many types of believers, there's not only one type of atheist.
John Templeton Foundation
The emergence of life in the universe is as certain as the emergence of matter, gravity, and the stars. Life is the universe developing a memory, and our chemical detection system could find it.
John Templeton Foundation
Evolutionary psychology could explain those otherworldly feelings.
There are two conceptions of free will: "straight" and "mixed."
8mins
The history of music from bone flutes to Beyoncé.
4mins
From superstition to religion, we are surrounded by supernatural thinking. Is that a bad thing?
John Templeton Foundation
A second Enlightenment would have a far bigger task: Saving civilization itself.
Proponents of transhumanism make big promises, such as a future in which we upload our minds into a supercomputer. But there is a fatal flaw in this argument: reductionism.
Quantum communication offers a surer path to sending an interstellar message, as well as receiving one. But can we do it?
7mins
"Supernatural thinking is actually an important part of being a complete human being."
John Templeton Foundation
Ideas often taken for granted in the United States and Europe about what it means to be a person are, quite simply, not shared with other cultures.
4mins
Rituals come as much from religion as they do from the way Earth spins around the Sun.
We live in a four-dimensional Universe, where matter and energy curve the fabric of spacetime. But time sure is different from space!
It’s not a huge leap to imagine we could target the biological processes that mediate our behaviours.