Category: Thinking Meat Project

A recent study of people who had near-death experiences (NDEs) found that those people were more likely to have had incidents where dreaming and wakefulness int...

The degree of biodiversity on Earth goes through cyclic decreases about every 62 million years; this has been going on for at least 542 million years. Recent re...

When I think of ways that we deal with being thinking meat, I think of things like music or books or art, or love. But psychoactive plant-derived substances als...

Daniel Dennett is visiting Indiana University this week; I’ve heard him give two talks so far, and there’s one more on Thursday. Dennett is a philos...

This essay from the New York Times by William Broad makes a case (in my opinion a weak one) for why science and religion need not struggle against each other; t...

A long-term study of 127 people has yielded some insight into the genetic and situational factors that contribute to depression. Researchers analyzed the partic...

I just returned from the world premiere of an opera based on Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town. With music by Ned Rorem and a libretto by J.D. McClatchy, th...

This afternoon I heard Ronald Green, an ethicist from Dartmouth, give the 2006 Sims Lecture for the Poynter Center on the IU Bloomington campus. His topic was &...

Several years ago my son was watching a nature program on TV while I was doing housework. As I moved in and out of the living room, all I caught was an occasion...