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Mar 23, 2018 — Robert Wright & Massimo Pigliucci
Massimo’s new edited volume,
Science Unlimited?: The Challenges of Scientism
What is scientism?
Science and the challenge of studying subjective experience
And about those pesky fundamental questions of existence…
How philosophical thought underpins all research methodology
Massimo: Core concepts across science have competing interpretations
The importance of distinguishing “is” from “ought”
What neuroscience can never explain about human consciousness
Mar 16, 2018 — Robert Wright & Molly Crockett
Molly’s research on social media and moral outrage
The personal benefits of sanctimony
Why do certain posts go viral?
Even without complex algorithms, social media discourages mindful reflection
Online outrage and the signal-to-noise problem
Mar 13, 2018 — Josh Summers & David Lesondak
What is fascia and why does it matter?
When fascia malfunctions
What David does as a “body worker”
How body posture could influence mental health
Unanswered questions in fascia research
Can mindfulness meditation reduce the perception of pain?
The concept of “tensegrity,” or tensional integrity, in the human body
Mar 9, 2018 — Robert Wright & Josh Summers
Bob and Josh recount their first meeting after a silent meditation retreat
Does yoga always have a spiritual component?
How Josh’s yoga practice prepares the body for meditation
How yoga’s focus on breath can lead to the body
Solutions to modern distraction
Bob: Mindfulness practice can erode essentialist thinking
What’s the point of Bob’s Mindful Resistance Project?
The present and future of the Mindful Resistance Newsletter
Mar 8, 2018 — Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Pater Edmund Waldstein
Why the Mortara case is still provoking argument 150 years later
Pater Edmund offers a defense of Pope Pius IX
Integralism and different conceptions of liberty
What would an integralist Catholic state look like?
How Pater Edmund became a monk (with a blog)
The day-to-day life of a modern meditating monk
Mar 7, 2018 — Stephen Asma & Rami Gabriel
Puppet show: Why are human emotions unique?
Does self-restraint make us human?
Considering emotions as social constructs
Stephen: If you have emotions, you have consciousness
Artificial intelligence doesn’t necessarily defer to it its creator
How insects are like robots
Does culture change how the brain reads emotion in faces?
Mar 4, 2018 — Philip Menchaca & Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble
Growing up Very Catholic
Sister Theresa’s atheist youth and subsequent return to faith
Finding a calling within the Church
Why remembering her own mortality is essential to Sister Theresa’s faith
Sister Theresa: Not all believers understand their children’s doubt
Mar 2, 2018 — Robert Wright & Richard Prum
Darwin’s approach to explaining the peacock’s cumbersome plumage
Could beauty have evolved, in part, for beauty’s sake?
The sense in which traits favored via mate selection may not be ‘adaptive’
Mate preference and aesthetics
What can we learn from ducks’ miserable sex lives?
How paternal investment in offspring became part of human life
When sex isn’t for reproduction
Richard’s misgivings about evolutionary psychology
Mar 1, 2018 — Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell
Crispin’s “Why They Suck” essay series
Why in particular does Michelangelo suck?
The contrasts in humanism represented in Italian and Northern Renaissance art
The “ennobling quality” of human emotion in early Renaissance art
Why Dan is a humanist and Crispin is not
Identifying the internal incoherence of Michelangelo’s work
Dan: Judaism’s approach to moral agency begins in the Garden of Eden
Crispin questions emphasizing human endeavors over all others
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