School of the Future, Pt 2: Seeing Through Other Eyes
The second in a series of posts about things children should learn, but often don’t. “But most days, if you’re aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose […]
The Top Three Political Battles Facing the Secular Movement This Year
With the religious rights’ stranglehold on the Republican Party, the results of the mid-term elections left few friends of secularism in Congress. The so-called “party of no” got straight to […]
Moral Tribes to Moral Lives: Interview w Harvard’s Joshua Greene
Joshua Greene, who visited the Yale Humanist Community on February 5th, is a Princeton-trained philosopher, Harvard professor, and author. He uses the tools of psychology and neuroscience to tackle abstract questions […]
An Atheist Explores Evangelical Christianity in Its Own Words: Interview w CRU Leader Matt Baehr
As far as I can tell, a fundamental tenant of Humanism is an agreement on the inherent equality of all people. For me, this means a responsibility to realize that […]
How Correlation Does and Doesn’t Imply Causation
In my last article I discussed the popular rule “absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence,” often associated with the argument from ignorance. However, this popular mantra, and almost every […]
New Staff Writers Positions NOW OPEN
Applied Sentience is accepting applications for 10 new staff writer positions! Applied Sentience’s Staff Writers Program was developed for young humanists, secularists, skeptics, nontheists and others interested in making the world a better […]
On Mathematical Intelligence and How It Grows
TL;DR: There is no Royal Road. In his three recent and awesome posts on intelligence, Scott Alexander describes what it’s like to grow up intellectually lopsided (high verbal IQ and […]
BREASTS: Lessons from Malawi
It’s time we talked about breasts. In Malawi, breasts enjoy a life on display. Plump and perky young breasts, wrinkly old sack breasts, breasts the size of cantaloupes, empty bag […]
Tending to the Demise: Book Review of ‘Being Mortal’
In America, and indeed worldwide, death is an abstract that lingers at the periphery of waking life until its reality comes crashing down. Though many of us see depictions of […]
Confessions of a Disoriented Young Humanist
By Alex Abbott American University My life is not a stained glass portrait of precise, crystalline ecstasy. It is a collage of murky grays, spectrums of sepia, tones of icy […]
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