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Conversations on the Plurality of World-views: A Response to Peter Harrison’s Some New World
PHILIP BALL | Conflicts can in fact be tremendously fertile, alerting us to areas where more work is needed . . .
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Dec 13, 2024
Google's Willow and the Future of Quantum Computing
PHILIP BALL | I’d put money on quantum computing becoming commercially viable and useful way before fusion does...
Dec 6, 2024
What Does it Mean to be Human? A Conversation with Erika Milam, Part 2
ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | Nobody disagreed on the data. But everybody disagreed on how to interpret the data. . .
Dec 5, 2024
Friendship, Sovereignty, and Translation
ILYSE MORGENSTEIN FUERST |This matrix of friendship, sovereignty, and translation seems portable, applied across fields. . .
Feb 9
Cultural Diversity and Scientific Truth: In Conversation with Philip Ball
PETER HARRISON | Unfortunately, the comforting narratives beloved by scientists fall well short of the standards of historical scholarship.
Feb 9
Hospitality and Hostility in Colonial South Asia
ELAINE FISHER | By pursuing this sort of boundary-crossing inquiry, we might come to better articulate how. . .
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Meanings of Science
Feb 9
Conversations on the Plurality of World-views: A Response to Peter Harrison’s Some New World
PHILIP BALL | Conflicts can in fact be tremendously fertile, alerting us to areas where more work is needed . . .
Feb 9
Cultural Diversity and Scientific Truth: In Conversation with Philip Ball
PETER HARRISON | Unfortunately, the comforting narratives beloved by scientists fall well short of the standards of historical scholarship.
Dec 13, 2024
Google's Willow and the Future of Quantum Computing
PHILIP BALL | I’d put money on quantum computing becoming commercially viable and useful way before fusion does...
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Nov 22, 2024
A Forum on Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire
Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire is a master class in how to open a dense intellectual archive. . .
Reviews
Nov 22, 2024
Print Culture, Kabbalah, and Popularizing Jewish Mysticism
AVRAHAM ORIAH KELMAN | Prophetic visions, vast accounts of reincarnations, mythic conceptions of cyclical time, and messianic aspirations—
Oct 11, 2024
Art and Eros: A Classic Persian Poem Reimagined
AQSA IJAZ | the story of Majnun and his maddening love for his young school mate Layla has inspired artists in most powerful ways. Whether t
Sep 27, 2024
The Spirit of '76: A Jewish Perspective on the American Revolution
MICHAEL HOBERMAN | The new nation that early American Jews helped to create wasn’t the fulfillment of a preexisting ideal or a club . . .
Sep 13, 2024
There Will Be Music Despite Everything
STEVEN E. ASCHHEIM | Time’s Echo is about the painful but also potentially liberating interactions between culture and catastrophe.
Essays
Nov 8, 2024
Irony in the Age of Trump
SAMUEL LONCAR| Irony traces the curve of human existence striving to be a straight line...
Oct 25, 2024
We Are All Judges: Why Breaking Unconscious Patterns Creates a More Just World
YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | Reacting out of unconscious patterns makes us poor judges, and we are all judges whether we wish to be or not. . .
Jun 21, 2024
Celebrating 7 Years of Our Human-Centered Vision
Summer 2024 | Celebrating 7 years of our human-centered vision.
Jun 7, 2024
Aumcoming: Meditations on a Sound
AMIT MAJMUDAR | Just as "Once upon a time" primes the mind to receive a fairy tale, Aum primes the mind to receive transcendence and peace.
Interviews
Dec 6, 2024
What Does it Mean to be Human? A Conversation with Erika Milam, Part 2
ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | Nobody disagreed on the data. But everybody disagreed on how to interpret the data. . .
Nov 8, 2024
Who Speaks for Science? A Conversation with Erika Lorraine Milam
ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | There is a long tradition, of course, of writing for lay audiences about science...
Nov 10, 2023
The Paradigm Shift: A New Vision of Science and Religion with Peter Harrison
PETER HARRISON | So there’s a kind of imperialistic assumption about the superiority of the intellectual apparatus that we’re operating . .
Oct 27, 2023
NASA’s Psyche Mission: Lindy Elkins-Tanton in Conversation with Philip Ball
Their conversation is lively and illuminating as they discuss the importance of teamwork for the NASA launch. . .
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