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News, ideas, and analysis from the editors of Metanexus
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May 7, 2012
Take a few minutes to watch a short movie to understand the Anthropocene and plug into the Noosphere.
Interdisciplinary explorations of science and religion, history, and the contemporary world.
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May 1, 2012
Is there some way to adjudicate between the competing metanarratives that shape our lives and identities? The philosophy of interpretation can help us dig our way out of this relativistic mess.
Woo-free, evidence-based inspiration for living in big integrity.
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May 9, 2012
"Big History" has entered the big leagues—both in academia and in entertainment. This new, cross-disciplinary field that embraces cosmic, geological, and biological history (as well as human history) offers an inspiring way forward through the thorny and tangled bank of the science-and-religion debate.
Reviewing the latest news on the science of human origins and the technologies of human transformation.
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May 16, 2012
While not as visually arresting as the more famous cave art found at Chauvet, the Castanet engravings are both older and represent what is very likely an earlier stage in the history of the Aurignacian culture. Some of the Chauvet paintings are now confirmed at between 30,000 and 32,000 years ago.
Connecting human experience to a cosmic perspective.
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March 27, 2012
You can shift your frame of mind so everything you experience in daily life is like the discovery of aliens. You're fully justified in treating every interaction with every part of the world with that same sense of wonder and amazement.
What the new scientific picture of the universe means for our future.
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January 17, 2012
The new cosmos is everyone’s home, its origin story is everyone’s story, and sharing the unique place of intelligent life in this astonishing universe is a bond that unites us all.
Combining the best of science and humanistic values to elucidate and illuminate the big questions.
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April 30, 2012
They are too small to be perceived as separate entities by our naked eyes, and so large in their numbers we can hardly imagine them. A spoonful of water contains more atoms than there are stars in the universe. They are at the deepest roots of perceived reality.
Mashup sermons from science, philosophy, literature, religion and raw, ripe everyday life.
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April 26, 2012
In the “no focus” area, incremental changes in circumstances make for incremental changes in your feelings about your circumstances. But once your situation catches your attention, changes in your circumstances have an exaggerated effect on your mood. In light of the Focus Illusion, how then should we live?
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