- Animals and the Law: More Like Persons or Property?
- Ants As Pets and Pests
- Are There Any GOOD Viruses?
- Beavers, Humans, and Evolution
- Before Heart Surgery
- A Biologist Looks at Religion, the Humanities, and Our Compulsive Sociability
- Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything
- The Biology of Suffering
- Black Body and Soul
- Black Swan Events
- The Body Electric
- The Brain Speaks Out
- Breath: Divine Gas in a Smart Body
- The Brown Sisters: 35 Annual Portraits
- The Buddhist Body Guard
- Chet Raymo on Santa Claus, Hot Stoves, and the Blooming, Buzzing Confusion
- Coming Soon: Fewer Humans
- “Comparison Is the Thief of Happiness”
- Cooperation and Competition
- Cyanobacteria: R-E-S-P-E-C-T
- Creativity: Survival Tool Or Higher Gift?
- “Damn it, it’s MY Body That’s at Stake”: Autonomy, Sociality, and Imperfect Choices
- Darwin and the Buddha
- Darwin and the Roots of Morality
- Darwin’s Dark Vision: “Ten Thousand Sharp Wedges”
- Dawkins on Values and Science
- Dawkins: Not One of Our Ancestors Was a Failure
- Defining “Miracle”
- The Democracy of Living Things
- Dinosaurs in the Backyard
- “Do Atheists Have Deathbed Conversions?”
- Do Virtues Require Adversity?
- Dylann Roof and the Southern Code
- Emergent Phenomena: More Than the Sum of the Parts
- The Evolution of Laughing and Crying
- The Fading Individual
- The Family Dog Dies
- The Family Dog Grows Old
- The Family Dog Grows Older
- Feces As Medicine
- Feeling Old? Envy the Lobster
- Fertility and the Evolution of Ball Games
- Finding Meaning At Auschwitz
- Five Reasons Why I’m Afraid of Dying – And Some Reassurances
- Five Things I Expect My Core Belief To Do For Me
- Forgiveness and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
- Forgetting
- 400 Million Years of Ferns
- Friends and Allies
- Genes Are Like Sentences, Genomes Are Like Books
- Genesis For Non-Theists
- Getting Dead
- God Loves You. Does Evolution?
- “Hello, Science” (2): What All Living Things Strive For and Value
- Hindus Seek Detachment. Have Plants and Animals Already Found It?
- The Homely Truth About the Shortest Day
- How Consciousness Might Have Evolved
- Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl and the Dramatic Life of Plants
- How Humans Live
- How Language Encourages Belief in an Afterlife
- How To Make a Religion
- Human Evolution, Backward and Forward
- Humboldt’s Vision of Nature
- I Like Lichens
- The Immortal Jellyfish
- In the Men’s Locker Room
- Is DNA Alive?
- Is the Universe Alive?
- It’s Diversity All the Way Down
- Katydids, Cicadas, Crickets, Grasshoppers
- Lessons From the Origins of Life
- Life After Dying? Absolutely
- Life Before Fossils
- “Life” in Other Words
- “Life is….”
- Life Is Precious, Life Is Cheap
- The Limits of Happiness
- Living As Meaning
- Living Closer
- Lucky Life
- Magical Thinking: Happy, Healthy, or Hazardous?
- Meditation and Science: Two Views of Life
- Michael Graziano on How the Brain Creates Consciousness and Spirituality
- “The Mind Is Mainly Drawn to the Future”
- Most of Your Cells Aren’t Yours
- The Music Man
- My Genome and Me
- My Million-Year-Old Back Yard
- My New Heart Valve Has a Serial Number
- Near-Death Experiences: What They Tell Us About THIS Life
- Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Hidden Costs of a Cosmic Perspective
- Neil Shubin’s ‘The Universe Within’
- No Pain, No Sympathy
- Non-Theists, God’s Love, and Evolution
- Oliver Sacks and the Comforts of Metal
- Ol’ Man River and Wilson the Volleyball: Two Spiritual, Secular Icons
- On Revising My Will
- On the Cosmic Calendar, A Date To Remember
- Our Actual “Eve”
- Our Talky Mind
- The Part-of-Something-Larger Experience
- People Are Different
- Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
- Pilgrimage to the Ancestors
- The Pioneers: Archaea and Bacteria
- Plants As Aliens
- Police Brutality and the Brain
- Pope Francis on Dogs in Heaven
- Pope Francis on the State of the World
- Prickles, Thorns, Spines, Hooks
- The Purpose Problem
- “The reckless, the degraded, and the vicious”: Was Darwin a Bigot?
- Religion for Atheists
- Reverence for (Some) Life
- Sam Harris and the Science of Morality
- Seasons and Heartbeats
- Self-Deception: Why We Fool Ourselves
- Sink Or Float: the Ordeal by Water
- Six Interesting Ways that Cars Are Like People
- The Sixth Mass Extinction
- Size Matters
- The Spiritual and the Sentimental
- Spiritual Naturalism
- Spirituality and Evolution
- Spirituality and Genes
- Spirituality From Science
- Stem Cells: How To Build a Body
- Stephen Hawking, Cosmology, and Spirituality
- Steven Pinker on the Decline in Violent Deaths
- Steven Pinker on Disgust, Sex, and Happiness
- Steven Pinker on Emotions and Genes
- Suffering
- Suicide and Evolution
- Survivors and the Terminator
- Symbiosis, or How We All Get Along
- Taking the Universe Personally: Neil Shubin’s The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body
- “There’s No Natural Selection For Happiness”
- The Very, Very Long View
- Video: “Big Bang Big Boom” – A History of Life
- Walking Up the Ramp
- Walk, Run, Eat: The Evolution of Our Body
- What Birds Are Saying
- “We Are All Mutants”
- What Is the “Nature” in Naturalism
- Whistling Past the Graveyard
- Winning-Streak, Everyone-Agrees-With-Me, You-Cut-Me-Off, and Other Biases of the Brain
- A World Without Blue
- Who Were Homo sapiens’ Parents?
- Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
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