How Your Brain Creates God

While many institutions collapsed during the Great Depression that began in 1929, one kind did rather well. During this leanest of tim...

Are the term "free thinkers" and "liberals" the same. What is the difference between the two. How is religion related to these terms.

  While the terms "freethinker" and "liberal" are often associated with similar values and beliefs, they are not entirel...

Does Independent Thinking Mean Rejecting Faith? Exploring the Link Between Freethinkers, Liberals, and Belief in God

No, it's not true that all freethinkers and liberals are atheists. While many freethinkers and liberals may identify as atheists or agno...

How does the concept of predetermined fate affect free will in decision making?

The relationship between the concept of predetermined fate and free will in decision-making is a complex and debated philosophical and theol...

How to Memorize a Deck of Cards in 60 seconds

  To become a Grand Master of Memory -- fewer than 100 in the world can claim that title -- you need to satisfy each of the following in com...

10 Unusual Ways to Live Longer

Just how much do you want to live a long, long life? You're already eating properly (well, most of the time), you keep fit (when y...

Top 10 Things You Can't Prove But People Believe Anyway

  Empirical proof helps us validate what we should and shouldn't believe, but sometimes cold hard facts just aren't available. Even ...

To Change Your Life - Read These 10 Books

  Positive thinking is at once the most widely embraced and the most frequently reviled philosophy in America. As I explore in my forthcomin...

Can the Mind Heal the Body?

Can the Mind Heal the Body? -  That's the conclusion of a recent scholarly article in the Archives of General Psychiatry. Such res...