The Emergence and Evolution of Life: Stuart Kauffman

How to rebuild California forests, with climate in mind

By Ula Chrobak

While scientists can anticipate how climate change will affect larger regions, predicting the fate of a given 100-acre forest plot can be trickier.

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#2 Wisdom in Death and Dying

With Stephen Jenkinson

The meaning of death and dying in a death-phobic culture and more on Sounds of SAND Episode 2

Scientists Say Your “Mind” Isn’t Confined to Your Brain, or Even Your Body

By Olivia Goldhill

Exploring how the mind extends beyond the physical self.

How James Webb Space Telescope data have already revealed surprises

By Lisa Grossman

“Definitely these galaxies are a big deal, but it remains to be seen how exciting they will look in the context of a few months’ progress with JWST,” Carnall says. The best is yet to come.

Science, Being, & Becoming: The Spiritual Lives of Scientists book Review

By Paul J. Mills

This groundbreaking book is an invitation to the public, to citizen scientists, and to professional scientists to reject the materialistic worldview of modern science

It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are

By Mark Wolynn

A well-documented feature of trauma, one familiar to many, is our inability to articulate what happens to us.

Michael Pollan on the New Science of Psychedelics

By Shawn Radcliffe

For many people, psychedelic drugs are intimately connected to the 1960s American counterculture, with…

How to Be Healthy in a Dopamine-Seeking Culture

By Brad Stulberg

the challenge of choosing deep-focus work and connection over superficial distraction and stimulation

Blessed are the (tiny) cheesemakers

By Ute Eberle

Cheese is not just a tasty snack — it’s an ecosystem. And the fungi and bacteria within that ecosystem play a big part in shaping the flavor and texture of the final product.

The Big Bang Is Hard Science. It Is Also a Creation Story.

Even with its explanatory power, Big Bang theory takes its place in a long line of myths.

Ancient Green

By Robin Wall Kimmerer

Taking a long view of life on Earth, Robin Wall Kimmerer explores how mosses—ancient beings who transformed the world—teach us strategies for persisting amid a changing climate.

Drumming woodpeckers use similar brain regions as songbirds

By Darren Incorvaia

The complex behaviors may have a shared evolutionary origin

Quantum Prediction: Something is Created from Nothing

By Ethan Siegal

In our common experience, you can't get something for nothing. In the quantum realm, something really can emerge from nothing.

What if Competition Isn’t As “Natural” As We Think?

By John Favini

Scientists are slowly understanding collaboration’s role in biology

Is Human Consciousness Creating Reality?

By Paul Ratner

An exploration of a groundbreaking assertion of a new paper published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Brain experiment suggests that consciousness relies on quantum entanglement

By Elizabeth Ferdandez

Maybe the brain isn't "classical" after all.

Why people across the world see constellations, not just stars

By Simon J Cropper, Duane W Hamacher, Daniel R Little, and Charles Kemp

While constellations and the stories attached to them have obvious artistic and spiritual significance, they also represent an elegant and effective solution to the problem of understanding complex physical environments.

Strange Illusion Shows The Human Brain Alters Time to Maintain Our Expectations

By Peter Dockrill

Waking, Dreaming, Being

By Vikram Zutshi

Vikram Zutshi In Conversation With Evan Thompson This article was first published at the Sutra Journal…

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#23 The Songs of Gaia

With Monica Gagliano

Listening to/with/as the whole planet is listening and sining, a conversation with world renoun bioacoustic researcher

Feeling & Knowing

By JP O'Malley

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explores the origin and evolution of consciousness

Black Holes

By Ben Turner

Famous Stephen Hawking Theory About Black Holes Confirmed