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Society

The anthropologist who says shamanism works, even if you don’t believe

Shamanism is on the rise, both in practice and in popular culture. Manvir Singh has spent years exploring why it is so enduring, what we can learn from it and the surprising forms modern shamans take

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DGYATR 5503. PART OF THE ISAIAH SCROLL, THE LONGEST AND OLDEST (C. 100 B.C.) OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS FOUND IN QUMRAN.

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Dead Sea Scrolls analysis may force rethink of ancient Jewish history

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Technology

Your deepest-held beliefs form a pattern than can be predicted by AI

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A young man lying on the grass and watching the Milky Way. Taken in A Veiga, Orense.

Mind

Could the 'spirituality of science' provide the perks of religion?

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Kamal Abu-Shamsieh, PhD - Muslim: https://www.gtu.edu/faculty/kamal-abu-shamsieh Jaime Clark-Soles - Christian Baptist Rabbi Zac Kamenetz - Jewish, founded Shefa: https://www.shefaflow.org Don Lattin - moderator: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lattin A panel discussion at Psychedelic Science 2023, a conference held in Denver, Colorado in June 2023

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Religious leaders given psilocybin say they "felt God"

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Anti-evolution books for sale in Dayton, Tennessee, where Professor John T. Scopes is on trial for teaching the theory of evolution in public schools. (Photo by ?? Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Magisteria review: How science and religion have a tangled past

Culture

'Dameskin' and a hinge taken from the door of St. Botolph’s church in Hadstock, near Cambridge

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'Viking skin' nailed to medieval church doors is actually animal hide

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Hittite temple

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3200-year-old shrine in Turkey may be an ancient view of the cosmos

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catfish

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Non-kosher fish eaten in Jerusalem during early days of Judaism

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Great Isaiah Scroll

Technology

AI analysis shows two scribes wrote one of the Dead Sea Scrolls

The handwriting style is consistent throughout the Great Isaiah Scroll, a 2200-year-old document found near the Dead Sea – but AI analysis of the text confirms it was actually written by two scribes

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Humans

DNA analysis sheds new light on ancient biblical Dead Sea Scrolls

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Space

A Scheme of Heaven reveals what scientists can learn from astrology

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Life

Why almost everyone believes in an afterlife – even atheists

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Humans

Buddhist monk Gelong Thubten on the science of mindfulness

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