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Living/The Dialogue
TS-Si News Service
Sunday, 22 May 2011
Colchester, UK. How you think about death affects how you behave in your life. That is the conclusion of researchers who had people either think about death in the abstract or in a specific, personal way.

They found people who thought specifically about their own death were more likely to demonstrate concern for society by donating blood, as reported in the journal Psychological Science.


TS-Si News Service
Thursday, 21 April 2011
Eugene, OR, USA. Belief in God doesn't deter a person from cheating on a test, unless that God is seen as a mean, punishing one, psychology researchers say. On the flip side, they found that undergraduate college students who believe in a caring, forgiving God are more likely to cheat.

The research is part of a larger effort to understand cultural development, in particular the role of religion in encouraging — or even forcing adherence to — moral behavior.

TS-Si News Service
Thursday, 14 April 2011
Vancouver, BC, Canada. Anxiety over death can influence people to ignore the overwhelming evidence for Darwin's theory of evolution and support theories of intelligent design, despite overwhelming scientific consensus that ID is inherently unscientific.

Existential anxiety also prompted people to report an increased liking for Michael Behe, the main proponent for intelligent design, [N1] and increased their dislike for evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. [N2]

Martin J. Rees Awarded 2011 Templeton Prize
TS-Si News Service
Friday, 08 April 2011
London, UK, USA. Martin J. Rees, 68, a theoretical astrophysicist whose profound insights on the cosmos have provoked vital questions that speak to humanity’s highest hopes and worst fears, has won the Templeton Prize for 2011.

The non-sectarian Prize is awarded to honor a living person for exceptional contributions to affirming the spiritual dimension of life, whether through insight, discovery, or practical works.

Book Review: The Cybeline Revival
Sharon Gaughan
Thursday, 07 April 2011
Fairfax, VA, USA. The Rev. Cathryn Platine and her sisters walk a way of life that reorders priorities away from competitive striving and toward communal sharing and peaceful community service.

Platine is the principal founder of a movement toward the ancient form of feminine and shared divinity that predates the later, masculinized, version which separated the Divine and subordinated the individual. In the process, she and her sisters in belief have restored an ancient form of religious devoti
A Universal Property of Musical Scales
TS-Si News Service
Saturday, 26 March 2011
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. There is a universal property of musical scales that makes it possible to recognize the music in very different groups of sounds produced by many different cultures around the world.

Scientists find patterns throughout nature, but biology shows that humans are themselves part of nature and produce artifacts, such as poetry and music, that can be examined in view of their fundamental and universal patterns. Music lovers often cite the universality of music as a means
TS-Si News Service
Sunday, 20 March 2011
TS-Si News Service
Thursday, 10 March 2011
The Odd Couple: Money and Happiness
TS-Si News Service
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Los Angeles, CA, USA. A new collaborative paper by economist Richard Easterlin — namesake of the Easterlin Paradox and founder of the emergent field of happiness studies — offers the broadest range of evidence to date demonstrating that a higher ...
TS-Si News Service
Thursday, 16 December 2010
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Seeing bad things happen to other people is scary. One way to respond to this is to blame the victim — to look for some reason why it happened to them. But there’s another common response, according to a new study publi...
TS-Si News Service
Saturday, 11 December 2010
Washington, DC, USA. While the positive correlation between religiosity and life satisfaction has long been known, a new study reveals religion's secret ingredient that makes people happier. "Our study offers compelling evidence that it is the socia...
TS-Si News Service
Sunday, 05 December 2010
Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Americans are much more likely to exaggerate their attendance at religious services than are people in many other countries, says a new study. While people in the USA have long been viewed as exceptionally religious — if not con...
TS-Si News Service
Saturday, 27 November 2010
Royal Holloway, Egham Hill, UK. When subconsciously exposed to religious ideas and concepts, religious people are far more likely to actively punish those they believe are acting selfishly and unfairly, a new study reveals. Biologists have found it ...
TS-Si News Service
Saturday, 25 September 2010
State College, PA, USA. People who leave strict religious groups are more likely to say their health is worse than members who remain in the group, according to a Penn State University researcher. The percentage of people who left a strict religiou...
American Women Happier In Sunday Church Than Shopping
TS-Si News Service
Thursday, 09 September 2010
Beer-Sheva, Israel. A new pre-publication study reveals that women in the United States generally derive more happiness from religious participation than from shopping on Sundays. Additionally, the repeal of "blue laws," which allow store...
Core Values Unite Americans Amid Divisions
TS-Si News Service
Tuesday, 07 September 2010
Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Americans are united when it comes to many core values, according to a survey, but the nation is deeply divided about certain issues. Gay marriage, immigration, and universal healthcare lead the list. Those are the some of the f...
Four Evangelical Types in American Leadership
TS-Si News Service
Wednesday, 01 September 2010
Houston, TX, USA. Interviews with 360 American leaders who are evangelical Christians finds enormous variety in how leaders engage their personal faith in workplace decision-making. The study was the largest of its kind and included CEOs, presiden...
John Avise on Biological Imperfection and Intelligent Design
TS-Si News Service
Saturday, 15 May 2010
Irvine, CA, USA. Humanity has physical design flaws which have long been apparent — we have a blind spot in our vision, for instance, have insufficient room for wisdom teeth, and testicles are in a perilous position — but do the imperfections e...
Experts Work On Defining Wisdom
TS-Si News Service
Monday, 10 May 2010
San Diego, CA, USA. The words compassion, self-understanding, morality, and emotional stability all seem to describe at least some of the universal traits attributed to wisdom, each of them broadly recognized and valued. In fact, there is no enduri...
Positive Ideology and its Discontents: Smile or Die
Timothy Watson
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Melbourne, VIC, AUS. Ever wonder why Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein thinks he’s doing God’s work, or why televangelist Pat Robertson believes the Haitian earthquake was caused by a people’s pact with the devil? Smile or Die: How Positi...

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