“Zooniverse” Lets You Expand Scientific Knowledge From Home
Citizen science can be a great way to feel like you’re part of something bigger.
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Moral Proximity in a Time of Social Distance
The difficulty of judging our need for physical distance can turn into something much worse: moral distance.
The Science of Staying Socially Close When Physically Apart
In the time of COVID-19 and physical distancing, how can we maintain our personal and spiritual connections?
The Reality of the Coronavirus is Changing Our Social Reality, Too
Rituals transform social facts into physical realities, and so the coronavirus is forcing us to change, adapt, or maybe even lose some of those concrete and physical connections.
Darkness and Light, Cosmology and Creation – In Memory of Rabbi Adam Feldman z”l
What was that darkness? A black hole? What was that light? Electromagnetic energy? Radiation?
Striving for Teshuvah Together
We may associate the Jewish New Year with inward reflection, but the Mishnah and the commentaries are clear that Judaism treats teshuvah as a fundamentally social process.
Is Morality About Cooperation?
Morality-as-cooperation is pushing researchers in moral psychology to think more rigorously about the evolutionary background and specific processes that might give rise to moral sentiments.
Human Morality: Features and Bugs
Our social emotions, like anger, compassion, guilt and gratitude, are really designed to help us solve the Tragedy of the Commons.
Evangelicals and Climate Change
Since 1970, trust in science has decreased significantly among conservatives and regular churchgoers, and as a pastor and former evangelical, I need to know why.
The Worth of an Angry God
How did supernatural beliefs allow societies to bond and spread?
