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Newfound brain structure explains why some birds are so smart—and maybe even self-awa


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Sci, 2020-09-27, 08:41 AM

Newfound brain structure explains why some birds are so smart—and maybe even self-aware

Virgina Morell


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Never before has “bird brain” been such a

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Rupert Sheldrake on Whitehead


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Sci, 2020-09-26, 07:04 PM




Quote:I interview biologist and psychical researcher Rupert Sheldrake to ask him about the influence of Whitehead on his ideas and worldview.



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Rupert Spira interviews Rupert Sheldrake


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Sci, 2020-09-25, 07:52 PM

Rupert & Rupert


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In this episode Rupert Spira and Rupert Sheldrake talk about the nature of reality, consciousness, and beliefs about the universe, and discover a common understanding. 

Rupert Sheldrake is a biolog

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Integrating Whitehead: Toward an Environmental Ethic


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Sci, 2020-09-24, 11:05 PM

Integrating Whitehead: Toward an Environmental Ethic

Sean Esbjörn-Hargens


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The main issue here is that, though Whitehead acknowledges interiority, he reduces all interiority to "prehension:" the pre-conscious experience of a subjec

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The lie at the heart of science


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Sci, 2020-09-24, 05:47 PM

The lie at the heart of science: Fraud is more pervasive than we think

Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis | Journalist and author of Fraud in the Lab: The High Stakes of Scientific Research.


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Everyday fudging of exp

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Beyond material: Should we embrace the immaterial?


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Sci, 2020-09-24, 05:38 PM

Beyond material: Should we embrace the immaterial?


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The world is only material, only physical stuff - has for a century been the dominant view. Yet science has seemingly eradicated the physical in favour of fields and energy, mathematics a

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The Quantum Butterfly Noneffect


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Sci, 2020-09-22, 05:10 PM

The Quantum Butterfly Noneffect

Nikolai Sinitsyn, Bin Yan 


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The butterfly effect is well accepted in our everyday world, where classical physics describes systems above the atomic scale. But in the

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What Magic Is This?: Emanuel Swedenborg


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Sci, 2020-09-21, 07:42 PM

What Magic Is This?: Emanuel Swedenborg

Douglas Batchelor

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For a time, Emanuel Swedenborg was a name that many in Europe and America were familiar with. These days, very few have even heard the name and those who have, th

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William Reville on NDEs-a potentially open-minded take?


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OmniVersalNexus, 2020-09-20, 11:28 PM

A rather bizarre piece from the Irish Times (I don't blame you if you haven't heard of them, they're not very popular from what I can tell) from a scientist who seems to be afraid of admitting that NDEs (probably) aren't neurological. 

I was mislead by the opening paragraphs, which actually did a

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Magnetotactic Bacteria May Explain Unique Behaviors in Some Animals


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Sci, 2020-09-18, 11:09 PM

Magnetotactic Bacteria May Explain Unique Behaviors in Some Animals

Hanna C.


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Researchers from Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom published their study i

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