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Speaking broadly, white supremacist ideas rest on two premises. One is about power. The other is about nature. The power side we’re all familiar with: the idea that racial categories should define…

Last week, The Cubit published an interview with Chade-Meng Tan, best known for his work as Google’s in-house mindfulness expert. He asked us for the opportunity to elaborate on some of the key…

Today is the National Day of Prayer in the United States, an annual day of observance that was formally established by Congress in 1952. The law that establishes a National Day of Prayer ( 36 U.S.C. §…

If the words “corporate” and “mindfulness” no longer sound strange together, it’s partly because of the career of Chade-Meng Tan. A software engineer from Singapore, Tan joined Google in 2000 as…

Best-selling psychologist David P. Barash has religion all figured out: God the Father is simply the ultimate alpha male.

Why the current cultural fetish for zombies? In 2014’s Hooked, Nir Eyal ventures a guess: “Perhaps technology’s unstoppable progress—ever more pervasive and persuasive—has grabbed us in a fearful…

If you happened to walk past San Francisco’s Parc 55 hotel this past weekend, you would have seen a most unusual sight: Two women bound on the sidewalk in chains as Satanists cover them in ashes and…

The hottest news in animal life right now is a story about “religious” chimpanzees. A group of researchers believes that chimps may be engaging in ritualistic, but seemingly purposeless, stone…

When scientists first mapped the human genome in 2000, public figures celebrated the milestone in the language of human unity. “In genetic terms, all human beings, regardless of race, are more than 99…

Last week, the blogger Hemant Mehta, who writes under the moniker “The Friendly Atheist,” told us to remove our heads from our asses and send Sam Harris an apology for an essay we published the…