“Is religion natural? Why is belief in gods, souls, and the afterlife so common across cultures? Why do some religious ideas and practices out-compete others? Can the new sciences of the mind help answer these and questions like them? The £1.9 million Cognition, Religion, & Theology Project, launched in October 2007 at the University of Oxford, set out to get some answers to these questions and likewise begin to...
Read MoreLaunched in 2004, the Ask Dr. Map web site contains answers to questions about maps submitted to Dr. Map, the “anonymous” author of the column Ask Dr. Map, printed bi-monthly in the ACSM Bulletin. The following column, titled “Expenses and Loss,” is from the ACSM Bulletin #251, available online later this month: Q: Dear Dr. Map: What are some of the most expensive maps in the world? A: Maps have value as works...
Read More“One of the biggest problems with quantum experiments is the seemingly unavoidable tendency of humans to influence the situation and velocity of small particles. This happens just by our observing the particles, and it has quantum physicists frustrated…This is the problem revealed by Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. To know the velocity of a quark, we must measure it, and to measure it, we are forced to affect...
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