After a pilgrimage through Spain, the challenge is carrying its lessons forward in everyday life. The prior, related article

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Scientists are probing whether language models trained on historical data can reproduce creative breakthroughs.

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Science will never be able to give a completely objective description of the world. That should make us humbler—and wiser. Excerpt: "Objective statements independent of any knower are fictions. Purely objective reality is a useful myth, but only a myth. Anything said about the state of the world comes from someone’s singular perspective. This means that all of our knowledge is intrinsically uncertain. All statements have unavoidable margins of uncertainty. Indeed, we can be w

DM Pondering the metaphysical today, ... far beyond evidence, at vanishing points: Is there anything to be found, learned, or perhaps reasonably conjectured from ancient history or prehistory of human civilizations regarding the ever-persistent prevalence of constructs such angels, demons, spirits or apparitions? This is a rich question, and one worth doing properly rather than pattern-matching a quick answer. I'll dig into the archaeology, the cognitive science of religion,

Meet the earliest known insects. Shaking hands with them will take a while.

How renewable certificates, grid timing, and new fossil buildout complicate Big Tech’s climate claims.

DM How might embracing the "3 Pillars" of all humans' actual reality: • all-encompassing, • kinetic and • vanishing points, (together known as Pantakinesis...) ...bring about significant advancements in human thought, response and vigilance within these three contextual examples: 1) Financial planning and investments? 2) Business modeling/strategies? 3) Career navigation? The core of what you're asking can't be researched — since the three pillars live within our shared corpu

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Members of Dordt's faculty reflect on how Wendell Berry's Christian imagination has shaped their own vision for faithful living.

Given access to email, A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them.

A lone signal from an experiment in South Dakota doesn’t fit the profile of any other known particles, physicists say. The related paper

Why we need wonder Excerpt: "Efficiency now infuses every aspect of contemporary life, if you let it. ...Optimization is terrific if you want to get somewhere else in the future. But it’s terrible for being where you actually are right now. ...I've come to believe that wonder, the most immense of our sensations, is the antidote." "Whenever you cease treating the world as scenery or equipment, you’ll find that you encounter the world as something inexhaustibly, constantly pre

Confessions of a “climate husher”

On a recent drive along the California coast, I passed gas stations knowing that the sun was filling my tank free of charge. Gas prices, I hardly knew ye.

Rising sea temperatures mean reefs don’t have enough time to bounce back between intense heat waves, a new report warns.

Forget the staycation. Research reveals that travel can build stress resilience, sharpen cognitive health and ward off depression far better than staying home

The iconic example of ‘organic architecture,’ constructed as a lodge for weekend getaways, embedded a modern building in the landscape in a radical vision of the way each could enhance the other.