You Have a Shorter Attention Span than a Goldfish

A study by Microsoft of 2,000 consumers discovered some interesting things. The first is that the average human attention span has gone down. In 2000 ...

Almost All People from Every Culture Prays

Prayer is one of the most common phenomena of human life. Even deliberately nonreligious people pray at times. Studies have shown that in secularized ...

Our Niagara Falls-Like Flood of Data

We are in the age of gargantuan numbers, truly instant information, ceaselessly hyperactive social media, when the World Wide Web has become a flood-driven ...

Sacred Pilgrimages on the Rise

According to research there is a noticeable decline in organized religion, but religious pilgrimages are more popular than ever. At the First International ...

Missing Woman Joins Search Party for … Herself

The Toronto Sun reported: "A group of tourists spent hours Saturday night looking for a missing woman near Iceland's Eldgja canyon, only to find ...

Secular Author Says, 'I Miss God'

"I don't believe in God, but I miss him."

This is the opening line from a book titled Nothing to Be Afraid Of by the award-winning British ...

After 26 Years, Boy Finds His Way Home

In 1986, five-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan and his 14-year-old brother were searching the streets for spare change in their home city of Berhanpur, India. ...

Sending Tweets to Aliens

Is there something or Someone out there who is really listening to us? Does anyone care beyond our little planet? Apparently, a group of techies and scientists ...

Famous Playwright and Journalist on 'The Hound of Heaven'

It was 1917, on a piercing winter night in Greenwich Village. Huddled in the back room of a bar, known as the Hell Hole, was a Bohemian gathering of artists, ...

Doctor Urges 'Pause Points' Before Surgery

The surgeon Atul Gawande's book The Checklist Manifesto shows how doctors can use checklists to save lives and reduce mistakes, especially during ...