🌀 Templeton

• 🔮Future Selves, Future Others

  Explore how our connection to future selves influences decisions today, from Malthus's theories to modern psychological experiments.

• 🔮Future-Mindedness

  The past, present and future of thinking about the future.

• 📚Bad Education

  How self-discipline impacts educational outcomes and why it may favor girls over boys in school performance. But is it always an asset?

• 🧠Wise Guise

  People have been debating what counts as wisdom for a long, long time. Indeed, arguably the oldest literature we have is wisdom literature.

• 🍷A Glass at Least Half Full

  Explore how cultures embody optimism through literature and debate whether this outlook is rational or delusional in our latest study review.

• 🌍Origins of Life

  Explore the fascinating theories behind the origins of life, delving into scientific insights and philosophical inquiries that challenge our understanding of existence.

• 🗣️What’s the Word?

  How gossip evolved from a term of kinship to a tool for social bonding and information sharing, tracing its journey from Shakespeare to evolutionary psychology.

• 💎Nine Ways to Make a Diamond

  Explore how minerals shape life on Earth and beyond in our latest study, revealing nine unique ways to create a diamond.

• 💀Dying Fast and Slow

  Explore the borders of life and death as scientists debate the intricate dance of dying cells at a groundbreaking NIH workshop.

• 🎭The Overconfidence Game

  Explore the Dunning-Kruger effect's latest revelations as experts and non-experts test their limits of self-awareness in new, illuminating experiments.

• 🎨A Rose By Any Other Name

  Explore how a groundbreaking study using paint chips reveals universal patterns in how cultures distinguish colors.

• 🕊️Forgiveness

  Exploring the science of forgiveness.

• ⏳A Most Taxing Delay

  Why, oh why, do we wait? Tax procrastination and its costly psychological underpinnings.

• 🐦The Surprising Importance of Bird Nest Architecture

  Explore how birds' nest designs reveal an evolutionary arms race driven by the cunning strategies of brood parasites like cuckoos.

• 🕰️Timeless Truths

  Does time even exist? Investigating a mind-bending paradox at the heart of our reality.

• 🤔Intellectual Humility

  Psychologists and philosophers are working to tease apart the ways we respond to new ideas and information — and the possible benefits of intellectual humility.

• 🧠Positive Neuroscience

  How our brains are wired for joy, resilience, and well-being.

• 🔧Fine-Tuning and Foundational Questions

  Is the universe fine-tuned for life? The Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) reviews the latest research.

• 🤔Q&A with Nathan Ballantyne

  Nathan Ballantyne shares insights on enhancing human judgment.

• 🧬What Is Epigenetics?

  How epigenetics shapes our biology beyond DNA, influencing traits across generations through mechanisms like DNA methylation.

• 🎵Call and Response

  How music's rhythmic bonds shape social behaviors and foster connections, from toddlers to adults.

• 🧬Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

  Evolution has evolved since Darwin, and an emerging new synthesis expands our understanding of what it is and how it functions.

• 🧬What Is Organism-Centered Evolution?

  Explore how organisms evolve beyond genetics, delving into forces like epigenetics and cultural behaviors that shape their development and adaptation.

• 🪞Polishing the Mirror

  Explore how Rumi's poetic mirrors reflect the soulful journey of Sufism, blending divine love with psychological insights.

• 🌍Five Questions with Matt Warner

  Matt Warner, president of Atlas Network, talks about promoting global freedom and human flourishing.

• 🔮What Is Future-Mindedness?

  Prospection, a blend of memory and imagination, shapes our decisions and survival strategies through "mental time travel."

• 🤔Free Will

  Choice matters - New insights into the philosophy, psychology, theology, and neuroscience of free will

• 🔬Research on Emergence

  Explore the intriguing world of emergence where simple elements form complex systems, a concept transforming our understanding across disciplines.

• 🌀What Is Emergence?

  Explore the fascinating concept of emergence, where simple elements unfold into complex systems, from galaxies to societies.

• 🧠The Power of Positive Self-Talk

  Discover how Ethan Kross applies groundbreaking psychology to transform middle school education with the power of positive self-talk.

• 🧩Complexity

  Explore the stories from our three-part research series on complexity from the Santa Fe Institute, a leader of groundbreaking, multidisciplinary research on complex systems.

• 🧠What Is Complexity?

  Explore the intriguing world of complexity, where chaos meets order and simple systems reveal bewildering possibilities.

• 🧠What Is Religious Cognition?

  Explore how beliefs in the divine shape our lives and decisions, in this deep dive into the underexplored field of religious cognition.

• 🙏Gratitude

  Insights and open questions from within the science of gratitude

• 🎯What Is Fine Tuning?

  Explore the enigmatic concept of fine tuning, where the universe's precise constants intriguingly align to support life, sparking debates across science and philosophy.

• 🌍What Is Cultural Evolution?

  Explore how cultural evolution shapes societies and predicts future changes, from songbirds' trills to the spread of lactose tolerance.

• 🤔What Is Intellectual Humility?

  Explore the nuanced realm of intellectual humility, a vital virtue that balances curiosity and conviction, enhancing our understanding and discourse.

• 👨The Dangerous Myth of the Male Breadwinner

  Explore how the myth of the male breadwinner, backed by historical and academic narratives, shaped societal views on family roles and gender dynamics.

• 🕯️What the World Has to Learn from the Philosophy of Afro-Brazilian Religions

  Explore how Afro-Brazilian religions blend diverse spiritual elements to address modern life’s complexities.

• 🕊️‘The Best Form of Self-Interest’

  Explore the profound acts of forgiveness within religious communities as they confront unfathomable tragedies with grace and compassion.

• 🌳A Family Tree With 27 Million Branches

  A new technique lets researchers plumb oceans of human genetic data to produce the largest ever family tree — and they’re just getting started.

• 🕌Religious but Not Spiritual

  Explore how "Never Have I Ever" blends humor with the complexities of Hindu identity in modern America, through the eyes of its vibrant protagonist, Devi.

• 📜Inequality and the Constitution

  Explore how James M. Buchanan's public choice theory intersects with Madison's constitutional ideals, highlighting tensions in America's founding principles.

• 🔮East Asia’s Religious Futures

  Explore how six East Asian countries shape the future of global religion in a groundbreaking survey revealing trends and transformations.

• 🚬Ancestral Smoking Is Bad for You, Too

  A new study links present-day health with childhood tobacco use three generations prior

• 🤝‘Together in Our Differences’

  New Pluralists are uniting activists, storytellers and funders to explore the paradox and promise of American diversity

• 🌍Six Continents, 22 Countries, 240,000 Voices - Creating an Unprecedented Window on How Humans Can Flourish and Change

  Discover how a groundbreaking study explores global human well-being through the diverse lenses of 240,000 individuals from 22 countries.

• 👮How ‘Policing for Profit’ Disproportionately Affects Poor and Minority Groups

  Explore the impact of Philadelphia's civil forfeiture program, which targeted Black and low-income residents, revealing systemic injustices in asset seizure practices.

• 🤝The Evolution of Cooperation

  Explaining the evolution of cooperation — one of life’s most common, complex, and paradoxical phenomena

• 🌀What Does a 1,800-year-old Buddhist Classic Have to Say about Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality?

  A renowned physicist discusses the philosophy of emptiness with the Dalai Lama’s doctor