
Is God Dying?
The decline of religion and the rise of the “nones”
The decline of religion and the rise of the “nones”
How weird beliefs can land you in jail
Ideology needs to give way
Why great scientists make great mistakes
Why terror doesn't work
Arguments of divine intervention—alien or otherwise—start with ignorance
Where neuroscience meets criminology
How data can help clarify the gun-control debate
Did a neurosurgeon go to heaven?
Pluralistic ignorance and the last best hope on Earth
How politics distorts science on both ends of the spectrum
How our modular brains lead us to deny and distort evidence
Nazis did not just blindly follow orders
Replicating Milgram's shock experiments reveals not blind obedience but deep moral conflict
Subliminal influences guide our voting preferences
Why people who believe in one conspiracy are prone to believe others
Volition as self-control exerts veto power over impulses
The death of the brain means subjective experiences are neurochemistry
Morality binds us together into cohesive groups but blinds us to the ideas and motives of those in other groups
Science closes in on why there is something instead of nothing
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