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Over the past three years… more than $1 billion has been sunk into tech-driven personal finance companies…with a special emphasis on startups targeting young investors, complete with the user-friendly, low-cost, mobile-enabled features they crave (social responsibility is a plus, too)… One thing that shapes almost all of these concepts: They’re…

“…when we began working with community-health workers to take care to patients, the outcomes we all sought were much more likely to happen. Instead of asking “why don’t patients comply with our treatments?” we began to ask, “How can we accompany our patients on the road to cure or wellness…

One of the extraordinary and exciting claims advanced in Evan Thompson’s new book Waking, Dreaming, Being is that some meditative practices — for example the sorts of focused attention practices developed in some Buddhist traditions — can actually be thought of as techniques for attending to features of experience to…

“After the artist Georgia O’Keeffe left New York for the mesa of New Mexico, she began signing letters to friends “from the faraway nearby”. The striking oxymoron has given Rebecca Solnit the title for her new, inspired reverie, which wanders through many kinds of elsewheres, near and far, and many…

I tried for years to be an atheist, then an agnostic, and, after failing at both, I thought I might become a kind of religious omnivore, cobbling bits of doctrine into a patchwork spirituality that would offer inspiration, or solace in times of trouble. I couldn’t manage that either. In…

The Afro-Brazilian Quilombola people are resisting the cellulose industry in Brazil and working for a post-eucalyptus reality. Source: www.truth-out.org

Originally posted on The Dish: Tom Stafford considers what a woman who was born without a cerebellum — and lived a largely typical life — reveals about neuroscience: This case points to a sad fact about brain science. We don’t often shout about it, but there are large gaps in even…

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On today’s podcast I sit down with philosopher Tam Hunt to talk about Panpsychism, a school of thought that tries to collect science and spirituality together and find a common ground… Mr. Hunt lives in Santa Barbara and runs Community Renewable Solutions LLC. Let me just cut and paste from his site:…

Originally posted on The Dish: Many atheists are surely passing around this post. One writes: Dear Andrew (welcome back!), Chris et al: What jumped out at me in the chart accompanying your post is that the ONLY group of Americans in which a majority do consider US torture justified is people…

https://www.youtube.com/v/UepDy0-H8jc?fs=1&hl=fr_FR FULL EPISODE : The Unsinkable Legend: Part 1 it’s like jimmy hanging out with his favorite uncle. Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee | Season 5 Episode 7 | Jimmy Fallon Comedians in Cars Getting… Source: www.youtube.com LOL

Goldstein is a novelist and a teacher of philosophy… [who] has written a love letter to Plato, whom she regards as having given us philosophy. He is, in her view, as relevant today as he ever was — which is to say, very. To demonstrate his continuing hipness, her expository…