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Recommended Viewing: The Blue Planet: The Deep

“We know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the abyssal floor.”  –from the narration by David Attenborough The abyssal floor being the bottom of the ocean, that flat desert prairie...

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Daily Beast Praises Mormons For Embracing Science

Excellent.  Today, the Daily Beast recognizes Romney and Huntsman’s uniquely pro-science stances in this presidential campaign as reflecting the nature of their faith. One of many great quotes: From...

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Reviewed: Feynman’s Six Easy Pieces

For years, I’ve wanted to read Richard Feynman’s Six Easy Pieces, the beginning of his famous lectures on physics at MIT.  It looked like such a great review of the high school science I didn’t pay...

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A Universal Mission Statement

For believers or skeptics, atheists or theists of all stripes, might this function as a call to arms that everybody could support? Discern the nature of reality as accurately as possible and, as far as...

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One Thing Matters, In Science and Religion

As the world continues to scrutinize the LDS Church during this election season, there are plenty of would-be experts ready to share some weird and scary nuggets of what Mormons “really” believe....

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10 Reasons To Love Science

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The Hubble Deep Field

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Science: Literature Changes Your Brain

Recently, some pioneering work in neuroscience has begun to suggest what English teachers have long known: that the power of literature is the power of alterity, creating the possibility of...

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Diversity in the Social Sciences

The reason America needs more political diversity in the social sciences is not because moderates and conservatives in academia need an affirmative action-style spoils system. Rather, it’s because the...

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