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“People who are religious might well be healthier because they help each other more.”
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Believing in God generates soothing “juices” in the brain that make us feel good.
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A conversation with the Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University.
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Control the things you can about your diet and environment, and get politically active around the things you can’t.
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One in three babies is delivered via Caesarian section. “This is unacceptable and of course it’s going to produce harm.”
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Mainstream media messages lead us to be totally dissatisfied with who and what we are—and make us into consumers of products and procedures rather than contributors to our community.
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How women should think about their role in a society where prescriptions are everywhere.
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When the collective started forty years ago, there was a “knowledge gap” and a dearth of information about women’s health issues.
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A conversation with the Executive Director of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective.
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Many Muslims feel excluded from Europe’s political process, yet the internal divisions of Islam have prevented believers from making common cause.
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How America’s Tea Party movement connects to the larger anxieties about globalization.
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Looking for a model of successful multiculturalism? You could do worse than former European colonies such as India and Indonesia.
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If the French political thinker and historian returned to the modern-day U.S., he would find that some of his most pessimistic predictions have come true.
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The history of religion and immigration in the U.S. has made us more receptive to outside faiths. But, of course, our true religion is entrepreneurship.
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“People see religion as a challenge again to liberalism and democracy.” The “Taming the Gods” author sees that issue as grist for writing.
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Will fears about fundamentalist Islam spark a European version of America’s “Christian right?”
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A conversation with the Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College.
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A conversation with the Harvard Business School professor.
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The game designer is most interested in the “social fabric component” of games, and how interactions with other people can become increasingly interesting over time.
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Communication is key for effective parenting. The simplest and biggest thing a parent can do with a child is to sit down and play with them.
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The professor found that the unusual problems presented by game design taught students how to engage an audience.
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The designer founded a school in New York that organizes its curriculum around gaming and digital culture.
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The game designer was tasked with creating games to be played very, very slowly. When the last fax (ever) is sent, someone will be a big winner.
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A conversation with the game designer and founder of the Quest2Learn school.
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Global warming isn’t going anywhere. We have to face up to that.
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We should be focusing on making solar panels, windmills and other green energy sources so cheap that everybody will want to buy them.
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Responsible behavior by individuals is good, but we need to reform our systems and societies to address our global problems.
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Businesses often spend money on politically correct solutions that don’t lead to anything.
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If terminal patients were made more comfortable with the process they’re going through, perhaps fewer would be interested in assisted suicide.
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The ideal situation for an older person is to cut back on their work requirements while still remaining engaged.
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