May 5, 2010
Recently, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik posted on the magazine’s sports blog a Dear John letter to baseball, entitled “Why Baseball?” Here is my (admittedly lengthy) reply … _________________________________________________________________ It’s true, so let’s admit it: It’s easy to fall away from baseball. It doesn’t really matter if the game is 2-1/2 or 3 or 3-1/2 […]
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March 8, 2010
Lionel Tiger, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, talks about how religion takes place in brains, and not just in churches, temples and mosques. He explains how the brain created religion, and how religion feeds the brain. He relates his own experiences of religion, as a skeptic. He contrasts his approach to the […]
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