AI’s Hopes and Dreams are Christianity Repackaged

Formerly the Religion Editor for the Atlantic, Sigal Samuel now writes about the future of consciousness, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience, and ...

Paying $100k a Year to Fight Aging

Medical clinics are popping up across the country promising to help clients live longer and better—so long as they can pay. Longevity clinics aim ...

Teachable Moment from Airliner Debris

By now you’ve probably heard about the Alaska Airlines flight in early January that experienced a sudden loss of pressure when a mechanical failing ...

Clever DNA Tricks

Every person starts as one fertilized egg, which by adulthood has turned into roughly 37 trillion cells. But those cells have a formidable challenge. ...

Rap Legend Credits God for Restoring Voice Through AI

“I gotta share this just to show you how cold G.O.D. is,” said Tracy Lynn Curry, posting on the social media X employing the hip-hop slang ...

How Life Expectancy Statistics Mislead Us

The dramatic increase in life expectancy confuses people. In the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, the average life span was about 45 ...

The Historic Quest to Look Young Forever

A study explaining why mouse hairs turn gray made global headlines. Not because the little critters are in desperate need of a makeover; but knowing the ...

A Reminder of Dependence and Creatureliness

Two Christian university professors had an unusual assignment for students over a long break. Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Willimon told their students ...

45-Year-Old Spends Millions to be 18-Years-Old

An article in Bloomberg Businessweek described the quest of multi-millionaire Bryan Johnson, a 45-year-old software entrepreneur, to turn back the clock. ...

Social Norms and Lazy Brains

Why are patterns of behavior so powerful for good or bad? As Todd Rose has written in his new book, “our brains are lazy.”

On a neurological ...