Growing up in the US during the oil embargo of the early 1970s, I was bombarded by public service announcements encouraging people to conserve energy. But at a very young age, I also read that “energy ...

Frank Wilczek has one of the most brilliant and original minds in theoretical physics, having come up with the idea of time ...

A lecture to honor Professor Jay Garfield on the occasion of his upcoming retirement from Smith College Challenging essentialist metaphysical perspectives East and West, Madhyamaka or the ‘Middle Way’ ...

From ancient Greek philosopher Plato to Neo, hero of the dystopian film fantasy The Matrix, humans have long pondered the true nature of reality. Can we trust what we see, taste, touch, smell, and ...

Quantum physics is often described as the most successful scientific framework in history. In its 100 years of existence, it has explained everything from the periodic table of the elements to how ...

In my previous blog post, I reviewed the published evidence that the use of psychedelic drugs—also known as entheogens—can change our religious beliefs. For example, several studies based on ...

THERE is so much loss among many men and women who have failed to optimize their value in their lifetime, not because they lack value but because they have missed discovering the power within. A good ...

Qimmit — a type of sled dog that has been kept by Inuit in Greenland for nearly 1,000 years — don’t share much DNA with wolves, despite a reputation for having been interbred. Researchers collected ...

White light can be blinding, cold, unforgiving. Our physical reality often finds it too much as well, splitting it apart any chance it gets. Plants are green because such wavelengths of light help it ...