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Archive for October, 2007

Age of Apoplexy, by Kurt Andersen

Posted by Richard Dooling on October 24th, 2007

Are the Controversial Comments of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Really So Threatening?
Kurt Andersen, author of the novel HeyDay and host of NPR’s Studio 360, writes in New York Magazine : “For a while now, I’ve fretted that we’re turning into a nation of weenies and permanently enraged censors, that too many of us are afraid […]

Searching for God in the Brain

Posted by Richard Dooling on October 24th, 2007

Researchers are unearthing the roots of religious feeling in the neural commotion that accompanies the spiritual epiphanies of nuns, Buddhists and other people of faith. In Scientific American: Searching for God in the Brain, David Biello, writes about scanning 14 Carmelite nuns to see what prayer looks like on a functional MRI brain scan.
Such efforts […]


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