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Goal-directed outcomes in complex chemical systems

Applied Islamo-Monism: Wahdat al-Wujud for Today

Developing Character for Chicago Inner-City Youth

Did Religion Help the Rise of Civilizations in the Americas?

Religions and the Emergence of Civilizations in the Americas In our contemporary culture, it is often assumed that organized religion is a conservative force that impedes the development of human societies. Depending on one’s allegiances, one may view religion as an obstacle that must be overcome, or as a fortification against society’s descent into chaos. But rarely does anyone stop and ask the question, “To what degree might religion actually contribute to cultural innovation and progress of a society?” Historians in recent years have challenged the modernist assumption that religious institutions are obstacles to human flourishing. Rather than accepting this…

VirtueLEAD: A Character-Centered Approach for Young African Leaders

Enrico Fermi Fellowships – Cross-training in theoretical and experimental fundamental science

Religious Perspectives and Academic Inquiry in Higher Education: For-Credit Course Development at Duke University

Our place within the cosmological multiverse: Insights from biological energy landscapes and transition networks

Preaching with the Sciences: An imaginative approach to Roman Catholic Homiletics

Future-Mindedness

Great Expectations: New insights into how and why we think about the future What do you expect to be doing in five seconds? Five months? Five decades? Thinking about the future is a form of mental time travel at which humans are uniquely skilled. Psychologists call it prospection or future-mindedness, and some have argued it offers an invaluable framework for understanding topics ranging from perception, cognition, imagination, and memory to free will and consciousness itself. In a 2013 paper — later expanded into the book Homo Prospectus — University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin E. P. Seligman and co-authors Peter Railton,…