Eating people is wrong – but it’s also widespread and sacred
Cannibalism is not uncommon. Humans have long enshrined the consumption of human flesh in sacred...
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Category: Spirituality
If we made life in a lab, would we understand it differently?
What is life? For much of the 20th century, this question did not particularly concern biologists....
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Is religion a universal in human culture or an academic invention?
If anything seems self-evident in human culture, it’s the widespread presence of religion. People...
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Belief in supernatural beings is totally natural – and false
Human beings are remarkably prone to supernatural beliefs and, in particular, to beliefs in...
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Black Hat & Mental Health
Black Hat’s new focus on people not just technology.
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To my best belief: just what is the pragmatic theory of truth?
What is it for something to be true? One might think that the answer is obvious. A true belief...
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Orwell knew: we willingly buy the screens that are used against us
Sales of George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have spiked twice recently,...
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Network visualisations show what we can and what we may know
In 1928 Jacob Levy Moreno, a Vienna-trained psychiatrist who had recently emigrated to New York,...
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How socialism helped to seed the landscape of modern religion
For most people today, socialism is associated with a secular or atheistic worldview. Since the...
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Do only humans have souls, or do animals possess them too?
In common parlance, the word ‘soul’ pops up everywhere. We may speak of a vast, soulless...
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The emotion centre is the oldest part of the human brain: why is mood so important?
Genevieve Rayner, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health The brain is key to our...
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Why science needs to break the spell of reductive materialism
We all sense something deeply deficient in our modern civilisation. Is it an absence of...
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