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Excited to announce my new @prx podcast "How God Works." I'll talk to leading scientists & religious thinkers to explore the science behind how spiritual practices help people better meet life's challenges, and how they might be adapted irrespective of your own particular beliefs

Come see @EliJFinkel at 1pm ET.

Psychologists and philosophers are looking at the dynamics of intellectual humility and the benefits of recognizing that what you believe might be wrong. Explore the research in our aggregated articles by @B_resnick, @Psych_Writer, @Plural_truth and more: scienceandthebigquestions.com/tag/217/intell…

This article was so much fun to write--it was a thrill to work through the ideas of several brilliant scholars. (Big thanks to @joshuarothman for his excellent advice and sharp editorial eye) newyorker.com/culture/annals…

I'm discussing “Can we use chemical robots to create life?” with @Sara_Imari, @mikha_ehl and Life is what!?. Tomorrow, 11 Jun at 22:00 BST on @clubhouse. Join us! clubhouse.com/event/myYznyZO

How to Make Your Post-Pandemic Happiness Last gq.com/story/how-to-m… via @gqmagazine

Renowned conservationist Jane Goodall has been named as this year’s winner of the prestigious Templeton Prize, honoring individuals whose life’s work embodies a fusion of science and spirituality. READ MORE: apnews.com/article/jane-g…

Join us this week (May 13-14th from 3-5pm EST) for a virtual symposium on intellectual humility (hosted by @moral_psych & @philipparnamets) The talks will be and recorded via: youtube.com/channel/UC93Pz… Please share with anyone who might be interested.

Data from Pew show that those engaged with spiritual practices are happier & healthier. We scientists should study those practices to understand why. Truly enlightened thinking means following the data. My take coming in September. simonandschuster.com/books/How-God-… @DouthatNYT

Learn about the latest research on free will, with new insights and understanding from an array of disciplines, including neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy: scienceandthebigquestions.com/tag/72/free-wi…

Chiara Marletto, a physicist at the University of Oxford, is working toward a meta-theory more fundamental than even our most foundational physics — deeper than general relativity, subtler than quantum mechanics. quantamagazine.org/how-to-rewrite…

"An Invitation to Become a Closer To Truth Member" By Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Host and Creator of Closer To Truth Read the article: bit.ly/3tGwyBF Become a member: bit.ly/2O5eXUu

When solving problems, humans tend to think about adding something before they think of taking something away — even when subtracting is the better solution. nature.com/articles/d4158…

When asked to improve something, people tend to add rather than subtract features. This discovery has many real-world implications, say @tm12am and Heeyoung Yoon go.nature.com/39Mg7fp

The new finding at Fermilab, physicists say, could eventually lead to a breakthrough in our understanding of the universe more dramatic than the heralded discovery in 2012 of the Higgs boson nyti.ms/31TkAIL

BREAKING: Physicists at Fermilab announced that elementary particles called muons wobbled more than expected while whipping around a magnetized ring, strongly suggesting that unknown particles of nature are giving the muons an extra push. #gminus2 quantamagazine.org/muon-g-2-exper…

In about 10 minutes, @Fermilab will be hosting a press conference to announce the first results from the Muon g-2 experiment, which MIGHT have found (more) evidence for an anomaly currently unexplained by the Standard Model of Particle Physics. More info: nature.com/articles/d4158…

I'm giving a talk on March 31, 2021 (3:30-5:00p EST) for the Expanding Empathy Lecture Series, entitled: "For better or worse: The role of social identity in the pandemic" prevention.psu.edu/events/expandi… You can join us using this registration link: bit.ly/EE21VanBavel

For some, empathy can feel uncomfortable. Learn how one might learn to regulate empathy via flexible social cognition in the 4th lecture in the Expanding Empathy series Tuesday, 12:30pm EST. For more information, go to rockethics.psu.edu/events

Gain a better understanding of the research on hope — what scholars have learned about its nature and benefits and how it can be cultivated: scienceandthebigquestions.com/tag/102/hope/