Floods in India: A View of Climate Change from Under the River
Dr. Luisa Cortesi shares her experiences living in places where climate change has hit far too hard for anyone to regard it as a myth.
Posts tagged with ‘natural’
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Understanding Deep Time: A Conversation with Briana Pobiner, PhD
When it becomes increasingly difficult to comprehend time beyond a human lifespan or two, how can we gain an understanding of the past of our human species?
Genetic Engineering For The Rest of Us
How we can teach so many of the complicated nuances of genetics to laypeople, clergy, students, and others who may be new to the big debates?
Thoughtful, Hopeful, Jewish: Navigating between Reason and Optimism in Scary Times
How do we navigate between reason and optimism as they crash against each other?
Understanding Biotechnology, Jewishly
What does long-standing Jewish wisdom have to say about the very recent concept of growing organs?
Artificial Life: Worth Living? A Panel from the Genesis Project
What are the ethical implications of the latest developments in genetic engineering and the impact on improving the quality of human life?
Can You Build A Sukkah From An Elephant?
What does the sukkah tell us about where the “natural” ends and man’s making, the “artificial,” begins?
Does Judaism Value the Natural over the Man-made?
Nature is not an end in itself. Humanity is needed to complete that which was created to enhance what is natural.
A Scientific Creation Cantata
One of the discoverers of the Higgs boson — who is also the president of a Reform synagogue — offers meditations on the creation story.
Reaching for the Heavens: Technologies of Science and Religion
Astrophysicist and Christian John ZuHone realizes that in both his scientific life and his religious life, he must rely on something “in between” to get to what he’s really after.
