A look into the interplay between religious experiences and the brain. As Humans - Hydration, Exercise, and clean eating are vital to our health and well-being. But what about religious practices like ...
Psychologists, anthropologists, and religious-studies scholars have been studying religious experiences for a long time now. What have they learned? Well, the answer to that question has changed over ...
A free yoga event in New York City’s Bryant Park, 2018. (Timothy A. Clary / AFP via Getty Images) Last May, the writer Tara Isabella Burton published a piece in the New York Times Sunday Review about ...
It’s a long word, a neologism, that seeks to capture a cultural transformation that is both historically specific and socially profound, a shift in mentalities and practices cutting to the core of ...
Artificial intelligence can feel abstract, so we’ve come to depend on certain narratives to try and make sense of it all. Some of the language we use to describe AI and our interactions with it is ...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an ex-Muslim critic of Islamic fundamentalism and longtime champion of Enlightenment liberalism, has announced that she now calls herself a Christian — a conversion that she ...
Sometimes it seems that everyone you see under a certain age has a tattoo. It can be an abstract sign, a Celtic knot, a dolphin, a cross or something whose meaning is less apparent. Indeed, a poll ...
Monday’s solar eclipse is this year’s scientific Superbowl. We’ve been bombarded with information about the best places to see the phenomenon, and warned to take full advantage because the next one ...
It’s easy to imagine a spacewalk being trippy or even jaw-droppingly frightening, but for one American astronaut it was nothing short of religious. In an interview with Kingsport, Tennessee’s ...