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...that I know a lot about Islam. I’ve met people who are Muslim, but Islam is a very big religion. The people I have met who are Muslim have certainly influenced me to learn that there are many kinds of Muslims, just like there are many human beings and that there is something at the core that many religions and many ethical systems share, and that has to do with treating people well and doing good in the world...
...Minutes: If you had to summarize “Good Without God” in one sentence, what would you say?Greg M. Epstein: I would say that “Good Without God” is a short definition of my life stance, of the life stance of Humanism, but only if the emphasis of good without God is not on the “without God” but rather on the “good”: on doing good, on living a good life for ourselves and for our loved ones, and for the sake...
Pollack, who said he and his colleagues have screened over 10,000 school-children, characterized most of what people hear about the creatures, which live in the human head, as bunk...
It’s true that in many ways, Lévi-Strauss was the artifact of a much different world. His great legacy is structuralism, the idea that universal patterns of thought—most notably, the desire to create myths—underlie all human activities. Though that take may not be in vogue today (even in the ‘70s, one Cambridge University professor wrote that “despite his immense prestige, the critics among his professional colleagues greatly outnumber the disciples”), there’s something to admire in the impulse...
...When we’re there, we act unified,” said Wheeler, whose teammates are frequently spotted using their stomachs as a human poster. “When someone acts crazy, it’s like a fever that rushes through...