November 2017

Editor's note: This blog post contains a spoiler for the novel Origin by Dan Brown. I just finished reading Dan Brown's latest novel, Origin. It's a great read with all the suspense Brown is famous for. Got a…

Here's this week's roundup of eclectic and under-the-radar health and medical science news. If you have not yet subscribed, you can do so by clicking here. A new study published in Nature's Scientific Reports rejects a widely held…

Is religious belief motivated by the heart or the head, that is, is it intuition or the reason that explains why people believe in god or in gods? The answer may be neither: New study finds cultural education can explain religious…

Credit: CC0 Public domain Religious beliefs are not tied to intuition or rational…