Why Do People Join Violent Extremist Groups
Most people don’t join violent extremist groups for ideological reasons. Instead, they join for social reasons – with someone they know, to connect with other people or to find a sense of purpose.
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Scientists Just Proved These Two Brain Networks Are Key to Consciousness
Scientists Just Proved These Two Brain Networks Are Key to ConsciousnessConsciousness is one of the greatest mysteries of the human species. Where and how does it originate? Why do we have it?
It is not you, but existence itself, that is fundamentally unsound
There is a common misconception that scuba divers inflate and deflate some sort of attached air sack to move up and down. In reality, you control your buoyancy by breathing in and out.
Why is Collaboration so Difficult?
Many contemporary definitions of "collaboration" define it simply as "working together"—and, in part, it is working together. But too often, we tend to use the term "collaboration" interchangeably with cognate terms like "
Religion is about emotion regulation, and it’s very good at it
Religion does not help us to explain nature. It did what it could in pre-scientific times, but that job was properly unseated by science. Most religious laypeople and even clergy agree: Pope John Paul II declared in 1996 that evolution is a fact and Catholics should get over it.
What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice’
‘The theory produces a good deal but hardly brings us closer to the secret of the Old One,’ wrote Albert Einstein in December 1926. ‘I am at all events convinced that He does not play dice.