Tag: Science

April 5, 2018

The Fracking Debate: A Discussion

In January, we published The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution, by Daniel Raimi; the newest release from the Center on Global Energy Policy series.  Below is a video of the book’s launch during which the author...

February 1, 2018

What is the Fairest Inequality of Income?

This week, our featured book is How Much Inequality Is Fair?: Mathematical Principles of a Moral, Optimal, and Stable Capitalist Society. Today, we are happy to present a guest post from author Venkat Venkatasubramaniani. Extreme economic inequality is widely seen as a...

January 31, 2018

An Interview with Venkat Venkatasubramanian, author of How Much Inequality is Fair?: Mathematical Principles of a Moral, Optimal, and Stable Capitalist Society

This week, our featured book is How Much Inequality Is Fair?: Mathematical Principles of a Moral, Optimal, and Stable Capitalist Society, Today, we are happy to present an exclusive interview with author Venkat Venkatasubramanian. Q: The topic is obviously very important,...

January 29, 2018

Book Giveaway! How Much Inequality Is Fair?: Mathematical Principles of a Moral, Optimal, and Stable Capitalist Society

This week, our featured book is How Much Inequality Is Fair?: Mathematical Principles of a Moral, Optimal, and Stable Capitalist Society, by Venkat Venkatasubramaniani. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our...

June 12, 2015

The Personal Mystery and the Impersonal God

Read an excerpt from Eric Dietrich’s EXCELLENT BEAUTY: THE NATURALNESS OF RELIGION AND THE UNNATURALNESS OF THE WORLD.

June 11, 2015

The Beauty of Seeing More Than We Can Understand

Read an excerpt from Eric Dietrich’s EXCELLENT BEAUTY: THE NATURALNESS OF RELIGION AND THE UNNATURALNESS OF THE WORLD.

June 10, 2015

On the Mystery of Consciousness

Read an excerpt from Eric Dietrich’s EXCELLENT BEAUTY: THE NATURALNESS OF RELIGION AND THE UNNATURALNESS OF THE WORLD.

June 10, 2015

Everyone Loves a Good — Temporary — Mystery, Pt. 2

Eric Dietrich discusses the continuing existence of “excellent beauties” (currently unsolved and possibly unsolvable mysteries) in a guest post about his new book, EXCELLENT BEAUTY.

June 9, 2015

Everyone Loves a Good — Temporary — Mystery, Pt. 1

Eric Dietrich delves into our innate attraction to mystery, our nature as metaphysical realists, and the war between science and religion in a guest post about his new book, EXCELLENT BEAUTY.

June 8, 2015

Beyond Atheism: The Religion Illusion

Read an excerpt from Eric Dietrich’s EXCELLENT BEAUTY: THE NATURALNESS OF RELIGION AND THE UNNATURALNESS OF THE WORLD.

August 27, 2014

What Constitutes Compelling Evidence, and for Whom? — B. Alan Wallace

The following post is by B. Alan Wallace, most recently the author of Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice and Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity. For more,...

March 19, 2014

Interview with Jeffrey Bennett, author of "What Is Relativity," Part 2

The following is the second part of an interview with Jeffrey Bennett, author of What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein’s Ideas, and Why They Matter. You can read part one of the interview here. Question: You said above...