Articles tagged "religion"

Fischer received a $5 million grant to lead a project studying mortality. Motherboard captured an hour of his thoughts for all time.

Would R.E.M. have been so popular in the 90s if they had always sounded this happy?

One of China’s four sacred Buddhist mountains could be listed on a stock exchange in two years by planning a Facebook-like IPO, "according to state-run Xinhua news agency":http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/07/06/will-pure-lands-gold-rush-pay-ou…

h3. A Day at the Anti-Web Rally In the future, the great Internet rally of 2012 might be seen as the prescient start of a global movement to grapple with the impact of this amazing and beguiling series of tubes: addiction, distraction, stupidity,

A beautiful evening at the ball park to fight the web.

There is a specter haunting the Abrahamic faiths, with guilt-ridden health nuts and bored human-interest journalists alike accelerating matters toward the violence of a "definitive decision":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical_council, with blood…

If Alain de Botton's "Atheism 2.0" is where “atheism” is going, I’ll gladly retract the label for myself and settle on “rational materialist.”

Steal the ideas of Buddhism's reincarnation, Catholism's confessions, and Islam's pilgrimage to Mecca, and combine them however you want to create your own jumbled yet customized guidelines for navigating in today's modern world. That's basically the…

I don't actually know a whole lot of church people. Something about generally being surrounded by scientifically-minded young people that are reasonably smart and curious about the world they live in (new-new-age triangle-culture cool kids notwithsta…

Last night was probably a busy one for Bart Centre of New Hampshire. He is the founder of "Eternal Earthbound Pets":http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com, a service that places pets who are not lifted into the sky during today's rapture into the loving