Immigrants who are arrested for being here illegally sometimes lose their children as a result. The New York Times profiles the case of Encarnación Bail Romero who was arrested as part of a raid of a poultry processing plant in Butterfield, Missouri. Because she had false identification, she was sentenced to prison. And because she…

A quick experiment. Please read the text block below and then say out loud what it says: . The illusion of of ‘seeing’ Did you say it out loud? Ok. When Alva Noe, a professor of philosophy at University of California at Berkeley, asked someone in our group at the Templeton-Cambridge course on science and…

Keith Ward, an esteemed professor of divinity at Oxford University, explained Sunday that the view of nearly all Christian leaders, writers and theologians from the time of Jesus until the 18th century was that God is timeless and spaceless. Got it. I’ve heard that before and, though somewhat unfathomable, I thought I understood the consequences.…

The most fascinating talk at the Templeton-Cambridge event was given by Chris Frith, a neurologist at University College in London, author of Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World A few ideas that came from this talk: Why Schizophrenics Can Tickle Themselves Studies show that before we move our arm, we…

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