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Decoding Near-Death Experiences
NPR has been doing a series on the science of spirituality. I’ve only caught a couple of the broadcasts, but I found the final installment completely engrossing. [Mental note: renew NPR membership] I find the concept of this series incredibly fascinating, but there have to be a few caveats.
Barbara Bradley Hagerty, the series correspondent, grew [...]
Humanist Symposium #25
Welcome to the Humanist Symposium News Channel brought to you by FreeThought Fort Wayne, I’m your host Skeptigator and I want to know, “How are you today?”.
Our top story tonight is the recent announcement that Matter is better than spiritualism coming out of Chromium Oxide Green. Maria Silva asks why the “supposed spiritual world is [...]
Your Brain Lies To You
That’s the title of an excellent op-ed in last Friday’s NY Times by Sam Wang, an associate professor of molecular biology and neuroscience. Wang briefly lays out some of the ways our brains select and mold the information we take in to accommodate our mental models, emotional attachments and beliefs. I’d like to think that [...]
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