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The Ban on Rupert Sheldrake’s TED Talk

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…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Science

“Neuroscience: Under Attack” in the New York Times

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…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Buddha Buzz

Buddha Buzz: Buddhist History in Danger

Sad news from the Maldives this week, an islands-nation that lies southwest of India. The Maldives, though now strictly Islamic, was Buddhist until the 12th century. In recent political turmoil, during which the first democratically elected…

By Tricycle

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