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Holy Grammar, Inc.

by Michael Erard

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?
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The Pluralistic Universe

by Nathan Schneider

Science has a handle on the age of the universe. Now “multiverse” theorists are asking a vexing question: Which one?
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  • Two of One Kind
    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
    Bodie    s
    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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