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| May/June 2009
Darwin and Galileo celebrate anniversaries in 2009: More than any other scientists, they showed us our place in the universe.
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Nanodiamonds are dirty-looking, often flawed, and really, really tiny. That doesn’t mean they’re not valuable.
Read more... - 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
| | - 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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