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Thoughts on AI, predictive text, technological metaphors, and the string of thought.
🍎Greater Good in Education
New website gives educators research-based practices for kinder, happier schools
🧬The DNA Debate
Dive into the DNA debate. Discover the untold story of Rosalind Franklin and the politics behind one of science's biggest breakthroughs.
👪The Center for Parent and Teen Communication
Aided by loving, balanced parenting, adolescence is much more than something to be gotten through
📚Bringing the EES to the Classroom
There’s more to inheritance than genes, and more to adaptation than selection
🏆The Legacy of an Oscar
Hattie McDaniel's groundbreaking 1940 Oscar win, its complicated legacy, and the fifty-year mystery surrounding the missing award.
🧠Training Faculty to Tackle the Big Questions of Today and Tomorrow
A new round of fellowships will equip tenured philosophers and theologians to dive deeply into the empirical sciences
🍎The Apple Ad That Changed the World
Dive into the history of the Apple ad claimed to change the world, fact-checking garage myths and early company details for HISTORY This Week.
🔭Extending Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative
New funding for groundbreaking collaboration to continue investigating some of the biggest questions in physics and cosmology
🤝The Development of Forgiveness
Studies shed light on how preschoolers recognize remorse in others and learn to forgive
📚A Browsable, Theological Treasure-Chest
The new St. Andrews Encyclopædia of Theology hopes to make complex theological topics accessible for people of all backgrounds
🧠SelfBound - The Making of Human Consciousness
How making makes us who we are
🔬Five Questions with Betül Kaçar
Join Betül Kaçar as she explores the frontier of astrobiology and ancient DNA, shedding light on life’s cosmic journey and evolutionary constraints.
🙏Christianity and Social Change in Contemporary Africa
Across the continent, scholars are offering fresh insights into the dynamic role of religion in the lives of Africans
📈Creating jobs and alleviating poverty through business support in Indonesia
Helping entrepreneurs grow their enterprises as part of a flourishing business community
🙏Certain Religious Beliefs May Foster Resilience in the Face of Economic Adversity
Tilting a game’s odds in someone’s favor may increase their karmic beliefs
🧠The Neuroscience of Self-Determination
An ambitious new project aims to expand the scientific understanding of human autonomy
📚Theology and Science in Christianity and Islam
How do you get 10,000 books into the hands of students and scholars in dozens of countries? Logistics, logistics, logistics.
🌌Chance, Necessity, and the Origins of Life
Minerals may offer a key to understanding how common life is in the universe
📜Rediscovering the Greek Revolution’s Roots in Classical Liberalism
Explore the classical liberal roots of the Greek Revolution as KEFiM illuminates the ideals that shaped modern Greece through a dynamic bicentennial campaign.
🔭An Evening Exploring the Unknown
Astrophysics, Anthropology, and Journalism in Conversation at the Atlantic Festival
🔌The Power of Unplugging
Encouraging people to spend one day a week screen-free
🌌Exploring the Big Questions with Aeon
A new two-year project will fund dozens of essays and longform pieces published in one of the most innovative and engaging journals of science and thought.
🌉Learning with L’Arche
The groundbreaking community centered on people with intellectual disabilities will examine how to foster humility and compassionate love
🌀How Life’s Upheavals Shape Us
A Big Data Approach to Mapping the Effects of Transformative Events
🧬Hidden Depths - The ancestry of our most human emotions
Many of the social virtues we think of as unique to modern humans may have developed far earlier than previously thought.
🔒Writers and Intellectuals Under Threat - Documenting Limits on Free Expression
Explore how modern tech curtails free speech and a new PEN America project tracking threats against global intellectuals.
🧠How Do Brains Represent Beliefs About God?
Explore how brains visualize God versus other figures through cutting-edge neuroimaging and machine learning techniques.
🌌A Night for the Ages
Marcelo Gleiser receives the 2019 Templeton Prize at the Met, blending ancient myths with cutting-edge cosmology in an unforgettable ceremony.
🕊️What Counts As Religious Experience?
A new survey framework aims to give researchers better tools to compare extraordinary human experiences.
🕳️Templeton-Backed Scientists Unveil First-Ever Black Hole Image
Discover how scientists, backed by a $7.2 million grant, captured the first-ever image of a black hole, unveiling the mysteries of Messier 87.
📚Expanding Latin American Philosophical Work
Developing inroads for Latin American philosophers in a new and global interdisciplinary conversation
🧠Examining the Neuroscience of Free Will
Exploring the enigma of free will, a team of neuroscientists embarks on a groundbreaking $7 million study to decode the neuroscience behind our decisions.
🧠New $5.34 Million Grant to Examine the Neuroscience of Free Will
Exploring the enigma of free will, a team of neuroscientists embarks on a groundbreaking $7 million study to decode the neuroscience behind our decisions.
🎓New Project to Extend the Digital Reach of Classical Liberal Ideas
Explore how a new project is revolutionizing PPE education with cutting-edge digital content on core topics like market failure and public choice.
🗣️The Art of Meaningful Conversations
Pushing the brain beyond its evolutionary constraints, one conversation at a time.
📚How Does Religious Participation Affect Human Flourishing?
New research to evaluate long-term links between spiritual practice and physical, mental and social well-being
🙏The Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology of Christian Trust in God
Historical perspective meets cutting-edge practice in new investigations into a central but little-understood aspect of religious life
🤲Nudging Empathy
New interventions may help people open up when confronted with others’ needs
❤️A Scientific Approach to Living in Love
Kindling new connections in the study of friendship, romance, and affection
🧠Creativity and Cooperation in the Dynamics of the Lexicon - from Lexis to Logos
A word-by-word look at how we learn languages — and how we may change them in the process
🌌Consolidation of Fine-Tuning
Building a field guide to ‘fine tuning’ across disciplines.
🌟Motivational Consequences of Sanctifying Difficult Experiences
From the hero’s journey to the walk-a-thon, the idea that suffering builds character may be a powerful tool for unlocking achievement.
🔭Opportunity M - The Fast Track to Find Other Inhabited Worlds
Deploying new tools in the search for planets capable of harboring life
🏰The King and the Cathedral
Celebrating King Abdullah II’s call for Muslims — and others — to enact their love of God and neighbor
🧬Molecular insights into historical constraints on evolution
Replaying evolution’s early days in a lab — with resurrected, billion-year-old genes
🧠Automated Self-Control - The Neuropsychology of Developing Good Habits
In praise of mindlessness
🤔Free Will, Moral Responsibility, Divine Providence, and Human Relationships with God
Who gets to play the blame game?
📜The Long Tale of ‘Brother John’
A monk, an umbrella, an essay — and many changed lives
🤝Need-based transfers and the origins of human cooperation
Giving without expecting repayment is not only more common than previously thought, it may also be more crucial for cultures to survive and flourish
🏺Consciousness and creativity in the Neolithic at Çatalhöyük, Turkey
Searching one of the world’s oldest settlements for clues about the development of human cognition