Constructs of the Mind: Science and Religion

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/12/what_about_evolution_makes_people_so_skeptical_partner/

Scientific understanding may deliver similar comforts as religion

 

Science could deliver the comforts of religion

 

Research suggests that a scientific worldview actually helps people cope with anxieties about their own mortality

BY TANIA LOMBROZO

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/12/what_about_evolution_makes_people_so_skeptical_partner/

OBIT: Cultural Morality

“He was interested in the way in which our humanity was grounded in very primitive aspects of ourselves —our need to think in terms of myth, narrative, the stories we tell about who we are as a people —and in our capacity for rational thought.”

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/08/07/us/robert-bellah-sociologist-of-religion-who-mapped-the-american-soul-dies-at-86.html?ref=todayspaper&

Tibetan Blog on Living and Dying

Tibetan Blog on Living and Dying: living-and-dying.org

Dying Doing What You Love

A quick end, doing what he loved:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/business/bob-meistrell-who-revolutionized-wet-suits-dies-at-84.html