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| July/August 2009
Linguists often rely on missionaries and translations of the Bible into obscure languages to fund their work. Is that relationship getting too close for comfort? Read more... 
Science has a handle on the age of the universe. Now “multiverse” theorists are asking a vexing question: Which one? Read more... - Nanodiamonds are dirty, flawed, and really tiny. That doesn’t mean they’re not valuable.
by Sam Kean - Widespread pollution has changed the bodies, minds, and souls of Chinese people.
by Stephen Voss - An unlikely response to the “Hindu face of the Taliban.”
by Meera Subramanian - Can science solve a mystery about the most popular saint ever?
by Peter Manseau - New Notion of the Sacred
Wild spaces dedicated to gods are an anachronism today. Or are they? by Nick Hunt
- "On God" - Don't Stop Believing
"A lot of atheists don’t believe in atheism right now ..." by Adam Gopnik
- Barcode of Life
A dying science tries to find new life for the 21st century. by Sam Kean
- "On God" - Race to Do Good
The future is bleak if we cannot find peace between Hindus and Muslims. by Asra Q. Nomani
- Dead of Winter
How women's wombs have become "a biological weapon." by Kathryn Joyce
- One-Way Ticket to Mars
Our best hope to reach the red planet might be to send just one person ... forever. by James C. McLane III
- Suffering Through It All
Is it possible suffering doesn’t mean anything? by Jeff Sharlet
- Are Markets Moral?
With stocks tumbling, it's time to think about how our brains shape the economy. by Michael Shermer
- An Inconvenient Satellite
The dream of a politician some call a prophet now sits in a warehouse. by Nick Street
- "On God": Full Disclosure
Do scientists really equate god with ... Bigfoot? by Barbara J. King
- Joy Before Death
Stalking the Dao of one of America's best-loved poets, Mary Oliver. by Stephen Prothero
- The Science of Persuasion
Political speech can frame elections, but how does it work in the brain? by Jonathan Hemmerdinger
- Give Me Liberty & Give Me Death
When a humorist receives a dire prognosis, there's nothing left to do but make God laugh. by P.J. O'Rourke
- Why the Buddha Lied
Getting beyond the literal, the metaphorical, and the rift between religion and science. by Francisca Cho
- Evolving Rhythm
New books about the musical brain and the spirit of Springsteen. by Barbara J. King
- Eclipsing the Odyssey
Scientists pinpoint the day Homer's Ulysses returned home. by Sam Kean
- Appetite for Destruction
Why locust plagues are even worse than you thought. by Sam Kean
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Darwin and Galileo celebrate anniversaries in 2009: More than any other scientists, they showed us our place in the universe. by Dan Falk - God on the Couch
"A devout tome whose cadence is more like prayer than scholarship..." by John Stoehr - "On God": Tuning In
Is the brain a radio or a CD player? The answer changes our view of god. by Barbara Bradley-Hagerty - From the Depths
How an oceanographer landed at the top of the Episcopal Church. by Daniel Burke - Open to Revisions
In “open source” religions, doctrines are rewritten as easily as computer code. by Sam Kean
- Sickness Unto Health
A malignant hemorrhoid can teach you a lot. by P.J. O'Rourke
- Forgive and Forget?
Can science point the way to understanding in Rwanda? by Jina Moore
- Religiously Transmitted
Diseases Can studying diseases explain schisms in religion? Scientists say of course. by Sam Kean
- What Is Skin For?
After twelve hundred years, foreskins are big business again. by Peter Manseau
- Getting Computers to Think
Like Us Computer scientists have written software that can fool humans. by Sam Kean
- Mystics Under the
Microscope Is there such a thing as a core, common mystical experience? by Peter Bebergal
- Reinterpreting the
Origin of Life A new look at one of the most famous and revolutionary experiments in science history. by Sam Kean
- Visions of Birmingham
They come for a visionary's healing. The visionary came for the nephrology center. by Ashley Makar - The Beef with Beef
Beef makes people who care about food—and its ethical implications—feel better. by Scott Korb
- Reading the Wounds
The doctors who treat torture victims find that the stories run deeper than the scars. by Jina Moore - Inconstant Flux
What happens when the fixed laws of the universe change? (Plus, read about the quirky history of "inconstants".) by Sam Kean
- Changing Our Minds
Can meditation clear the fog of war? Doctors and veterans find out. by Nick Street
- "On God": Unheavenly
Bodies The more coherent the cosmos becomes, the less imperiously whimsical. by Natalie Angier
- Plasticize Me
Will advances in human tissue preservation change how we think about bodies, death, god ... and China? by Peter Manseau
- Down in the Valley
The "uncanny valley" may dictate how humans evolve in the future. by Sam Kean
- Praying for Ice
Global warming and terrorism threaten a 900-year-old Hindu pilgramage. Photos by Javeed Shah, Text by Peter Manseau
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