An excerpt from Spirituality and Intellectual Honesty
by Thomas Metzinger
Here’s something to spend the weekend contemplating… Can something like a completely secularized form of spirituality exist? Or is this idea perhaps incoherent—something that on second sight cannot be described consistently and without getting lost in obvious contradictions?
How We’ll Become Cyborgs and Extend Human Potential
by Hugh Herr
Click here to watch the video
The Science of Cells That Never Get Old
by Elizabeth Blackburn
Another highlight for me at the last TED conference…
David Gelles has created a mindfulness meditation guide for children, featuring some of my work with Susan Kaiser Greenland. I’m delighted to share this wonderful resource for parents and children!
Click here to see the guide in The New York Times
Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields
by Jim Baggott
What we have discovered is that the foundations of our universe are not as solid or as certain and dependable as we might have once imagined. They are instead built from ghosts and phantoms, of a peculiar quantum kind…