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Religion vs. Humanism: Isaac Asimov on Science and Spirituality
Religion vs. Humanism: Isaac Asimov on Science and Spirituality

“The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death.”

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Ever Rethinking the Lord’s Prayer: Buckminster Fuller Revises Scripture with Science
Ever Rethinking the Lord’s Prayer: Buckminster Fuller Revises Scripture with Science

“Love is metaphysical gravity.”

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How to Save Science: Education, the Gender Gap, and the Next Generation of Creative Thinkers
How to Save Science: Education, the Gender Gap, and the Next Generation of Creative Thinkers

“The skills of the 21st century need us to create scholars who can link the unlinkable.”

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The Best Science Books of 2012
The Best Science Books of 2012

From cosmology to cosmic love, or what your biological clock has to do with diagraming evolution.

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The Science of “Chunking,” Working Memory, and How Pattern Recognition Fuels Creativity
The Science of “Chunking,” Working Memory, and How Pattern Recognition Fuels Creativity

“Generating interesting connections between disparate subjects is what makes art so fascinating to create and to view… We are forced to contemplate a new, higher pattern that binds lower ones together.”

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Sleep and the Teenage Brain
Sleep and the Teenage Brain

How a seemingly simple change can have a profound effect on everything from academic performance to bullying.

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William Wordsworth on Pleasure as the Shared Heart of Poetry and Science
William Wordsworth on Pleasure as the Shared Heart of Poetry and Science

“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.”

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Thomas Edison, Power-Napper: The Great Inventor on Sleep and Success
Thomas Edison, Power-Napper: The Great Inventor on Sleep and Success

“Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.”

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The Science of Lucid Dreaming and How to Learn to Control Your Dreams, Animated
The Science of Lucid Dreaming and How to Learn to Control Your Dreams, Animated

Trekking the continuum of sleep and wakefulness in a journey into metaconsciousness.

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Ray Bradbury’s Unpublished Poems and His Meditation on Science vs. Religion
Ray Bradbury’s Unpublished Poems and His Meditation on Science vs. Religion

“It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity.”

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