Scientist Rupert Sheldrake’s recent work lays bare many of the unexamined assumptions common in mainstream science. I was very pleased to find that the first online comment on “A Question of Faith,” my interview with Sheldrake…
If you get the Sunday Times you probably saw Alissa Quart’s clever op-ed on the backlash against the perfunctory extrapolations and sweeping claims made by popular neuroscience. The danger of false positives in neuroimaging has been…
It’s Friday the thirteenth (paraskevidekatriaphobics, beware) and what better way to celebrate than with an interview with “smash-and-grab Buddhist” Ian Astbury, veteran grunger and bandmember of The Cult? As the interview begins on the Huffington Post,…
Being the writer of Buddha Buzz blog posts certainly has its advantages. For one, I get to spend my time reading and writing about subjects that are important to me. But the main advantage by far…