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Thoughts on AI, predictive text, technological metaphors, and the string of thought.
🚽Who Invented the Flush Toilet?
Explore the flush toilet's journey from ancient sanitation innovation to modern necessity, tracing its evolution through history and technology.
🏡Character, Virtue, Quarantine
Explore how virtues like gratitude and cooperation shape our resilience in the face of pandemic disruptions, guided by new research from the John Templeton Foundation.
🧠Mental Healthcare, Virtue, and Human Flourishing
Gratitude, humility, forgiveness, and other positive qualities may have a lot to offer in both psychological research and clinical practice.
🌌Space and Time After Quantum Gravity
String theory, quantum loop gravity, and the philosophy of describing the indescribable
🌍Accurately Measuring Religious Belief and Attitudes Around the World
Want to find out the prevalence of atheism? Maybe don’t ask.
🍎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